“The Elephant’s Journey.” Jose Saramago. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 288 pages. $24.

Summer, 1551. The King of Portugal gives Maximilian, regent of Spain and archduke of Austria, an elephant as a belated wedding present. There is just one small problem: getting the elephant from Lisbon to Vienna.

 


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