"The elephant Voyage" is a tale more than a novel. For style, the first pages have many baffled me because sentences are very, very long and there is no punctuation to mark the dialogues of capital or the early names. We imagine that José Saramago wrote it this way to the narrative approach as close of a tale of oral tradition where there is necessarily no visible punctuation. After two or three pages you get used to and there is a natural inhalation - like being the storyteller yourself - because the style is literally a gem of its kind and that is obvious. On the merits, it is the story of an elephant given by the King of Portugal King of Austria, and his long and hazardeuse journey to his new place of life. You meet all kinds of characters - with diverse and varied through human beings in general - and we laugh a lot of burlesque certain situations. Recommend to seasoned players.
