An Elephant Novel From José Saramago in 2010

On the heels of the runaway success of the Sara Gruen novel “Water for Elephants,” another writer is about to take aim at the best-seller list with a novel populated with elephants — only this time it’s the Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago, who we assume will have a slightly different take on the subject. In a news release on Monday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it had acquired a new novel, “The Elephant’s Journey,” by Mr. Saramago, the Portuguese author of books like “Blindness” and “Death With Interruptions.”
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