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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Walsh, S. Kirk.     Subjects     Zoo keepers -- Fiction.     Elephants -- Fiction.     Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.     Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Walsh, S. Kirk.       by title:      The elephant of Belf...       by call number:      FICTION WAL     Search the Web     Walsh, S. Kirk.     Zoo keepers -- Fiction.     Elephants -- Fiction.     Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.     Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

The elephant of Belfast : a novel / S. Kirk Walsh. by Walsh, S. Kirk. Counterpoint, 2021. Call #: FICTION WAL Subjects Zoo keepers -- Fiction.   Elephants -- Fiction.   Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.   Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781640094000 (hc.) Edition:  1st hardcover ed. Description:  324 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted--and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving at the Belfast docks from Ceylon. Soon, she becomes Violet's dedicated zookeeper at the Bellevue Zoo. At the same time, Hettie continues to experience the grief related to the recent loss of her beloved older sister, Anna, and the abandonment of her father, Thomas, who left her mother, Rose. On April 15th , 1941, Belfast is attacked for five hours, with 674 bombs falling, and almost a thousand civilians being killed. During the bombings and its aftermath, Hettie does all that she can to save her elephant, and survive the destruction and escalating sectarian unrest of the city. Even though Hettie is still only twenty years old by the novel's end, she's aged at least a decade, her life and perspective transforming in tragic and unexpected ways. Taken altogether, The Elephant of Belfast reflects a complicated portrait of loss, grief, love, and resilience, and how the zoo and the city of Belfast suffered during these catastrophic attacks. At the narrative's heart is a changing relationship between a young woman and an elephant: At first, it seems that Hettie saves Violet, but in the end, Violet saves her"--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Literary fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION WAL Adult books Checked out Jul 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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