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When the Elephants Dance

by Tess Uriza Holthe (Goodreads Author)

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“Papa explains the war like this: ‘When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.’ The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. And our Philippine Islands? We are the small chickens.”

Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magic...more “Papa explains the war like this: ‘When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.’ The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. And our Philippine Islands? We are the small chickens.”

Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magical and true to life. When the Elephants Dance introduces us to the incandescent voice of Tess Uriza Holthe, who sets her remarkable first novel in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands. The Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila. Outside the safety of their little refuge the war rages on—fiery bombs torch the beautiful Filipino countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerillas wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war, only emerging to look for food, water, and medicine.

Through the eyes of three narrators, thirteen-year-old Alejandro Karangalan, his spirited older sister Isabelle, and Domingo, a passionate guerilla commander, we see how ordinary people must learn to live in the midst of extraordinary uncertainty, how they must find hope for survival where none seems to exist. They find this hope in the dramatic history of the Philippine Islands and the passion and bravery of its people. Crowded together in the cellar, the Karangalans and their friends and neighbors tell magical stories to one another based on Filipino myth and legend to fuel their courage, pass the time, and teach important lessons. The group is held spellbound by these stories, which feature a dazzling array of ghosts, witches, supernatural creatures, and courageous Filipinos who changed the course of history with their actions. These profoundly moving stories transport the listeners from the chaos of the war around them and give them new resolve to fight on.

With When the Elephants Dance Holthe has not only written a gripping narrative of how Alejandro, Isabelle, Domingo and their community fight for survival, but a loving tribute to the magical realism that infuses Filipino culture. The stories shared by her characters are based on the same tales handed down to Holthe from her Filipino father and lola, her grandmother. This stunning debut novel is the first to celebrate in such richness and depth the spirit of the Filipino people and their fascinating story and marks the introduction of a talented new author who will join the ranks of writers such as Arundhati Roy, Manil Suri, and Amy Tan.

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Published March 26th 2002 by Crown Publishers (first published 2002)

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Jul 11, 2011 K.D. Oliveros rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: about-philippines, war

If I were the mayor of Manila, I would give a symbolic key to the city to the Tess Uriza-Holte and declare her as city’s adopted daughter. If the good mayor could do that to Manny Pacquiao or to many visiting class B showbiz personalities, why not this Filipino-American author who took great interest to write this exceptional book about the Philippines particularly the City of Manila? A book that covers a sheer span of time in Philippine history from the Spanish era to the waning days of the Jap...more

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Jun 12, 2009 Sally rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everyone - really interesting story about the experience of the Filipinos during WWII

Recommended to Sally by: widely recommended

Shelves: mostly-literary-fiction

This is a wonderful book. We read this captivating novel in the Mostly Literary Fiction group in April 2009, with a follow-up Q&A with the author herself, Tess Uriza Holthe, on the GoodReads.com network. Check it out at:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

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Dec 28, 2011 Suzanne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: around-the-world-challenge, historical-fiction

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Jan 25, 2008 Estela rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Estela by: Geraldine

My sister-in-law gave this book for my unexpected trip to the Philippines. I didn't open the book til I got to my grandparents home and ... I was completely absorbed & had a hard time putting this book down (it was as if I was reading a long lost relative's diary). I caught myself pausing amongst certain chapters, looking at where I was at the current time, and just imagining what took place over 50 years ago here in the Philippines.

This book provided pieces of Philippine history that I use...more

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Jul 26, 2007 Beth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bookgroup

When the Elephants Dance is the story of the Philippine's during WWII after the Japanese had taken control of the islands. Due to exorbitant costs and danger of death most families at that time hid with local neighbors and friends, only going out to trade or search for food to survive. This book is the story of one family - hiding in their basement with 11 neighbors and friends.

The book is broken down into 3 main parts - the first being told by the 2nd child Alenjandro, the second being told by...more

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Jun 05, 2007 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was sucked into this book and found myself reading it late into the night. It takes place in the Philippines at the end of WWII when the Japanese are beginning to lose hold of the island. The is a part of fairly recent history that I shamefully didn't know much about. We always hear about Corregidor and MacArthur, because those were American sufferings and American heroes, but we never hear about how horribly the Philippine people suffered not only under the Japanese during WWII but previously...more

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Nov 05, 2007 Barbara rated it 3 of 5 stars

I think my three stars are for how easy a book this is to teach for students being so receptive to it; I've seen students of Filipino American literature find this book accessible and interesting. For some reason students for classes I have TA'ed identify with these stories, or rather, students identify with the author's disconnect with Philippine history and the country itself. This disconnect is apparent in the author's writing, in which descriptions of the land, the people, etc. appear second...more

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Stephen I was thinking about teaching this one Barbara. There's a course I'm doing on Trauma and Narrative and thought this one would fit, but your 3 stars ha...more
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Tisa Clearly this is too much too late, given the date of your post, Stephen, and the initial review from Barbara Jane, but here goes.

Three stars isn't a b...more Clearly this is too much too late, given the date of your post, Stephen, and the initial review from Barbara Jane, but here goes.

Three stars isn't a bad review, it's an honest one. I read this book immediately, as soon as it hit the table at Modern Times in San Francisco, where I worked. So there are a lot of years between my read and Barbara Jane's; I'm intrigued to go back and read from a more knowledgeable perspective than I had then.
I remember really enjoying it, and don't recall being bothered by distance. It kind of made sense to me, the narrative through a child's eyes, through (if I recall), the long lens of time and trauma. It had a documentary feel. The lens is an important impression, because I remember the story being told so often from the P.O.V. of someone in hiding, who is seeing or hearing what shouldn't be seen and heard, who doesn't want to be seen or heard themselves.

I'm a big form-content interrogator when I read, so I wonder how trauma and memory impact the shape of the novel in regard to human and topographical details; what's in focus, what's not. Barbara Jane's take is also really instructive for anyone who endeavors to write about a place they don't know intimately. How does one effectively conjure, in such circumstances? But these are the concerns of a writer and a teacher of writing, not necessarily those of a general reader. The writer must fully imagine the Real, if realism is the goal. It is, in this book. So.

In reading the novel, I remember more a flagging energy, getting past the crisis point to the resolution. Hard work, getting a long story to the other side of itself. I remember being done before the book was, in some way, and that has to do with that flagging energy, the novel's movement towards the end.

I like what Barbara says about the book being a gateway. When the Elephants Dance has a special place for me in that regard, because it was part of a continuum of recent novels by Filipino authors (R. Zamora Linmark, Bino Realuyo, Brian Ascalon Roley), and was the only novel by a woman who wasn't Jessica Hagedorn (as far as I knew), during roughly 1996-2002. So I was excited about all these new voices, Holthe's in particular.

Barbara Jane's concerns, or her rating, is no reason to doubt the book's effectiveness in the classroom, but instead are reasons why one should try teaching it. In my teaching experience, discussing the perceived shortcomings of a creative work is often more productive, more generative of probing questions about process, craft and author intentions, than only discussing or focusing on perceived or agreed-upon strengths. I'm eager to re-read When the Elephants Dance now, and am glad I was so randomly returned to it through you both (instigated by seeing Ms. Holthe's photo).(less)
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Jul 10, 2007 Athena rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, filipiniana

Riddled with cliches, geographical and cultural inaccuracies, and one-dimensional characters. It also demonstrates a very poor understanding of how socio-economic class functions in the rural Philippines. The storytelling is decent, but there are better novels on the Philippines during WWII out there (When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, for one).

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Apr 07, 2012 Crystal rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, historical

This book is absolutely magnificent.

I originally chose to read this book in order to get a glimpse into the history of the Filipino people because my boyfriend is Filipino. When I began reading the book, I found myself deeply immersed in a vastness of culture, stories, family relations, and pride that gave me an new appreciation for a people who were only recently given the ability to lead and govern themselves, and the struggles they incurred during these transitory times. The bond of family ex...more

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Jul 07, 2011 Jennifer de Guzman rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

I have not come across a lot of novels dealing with the Filipino experience during World War II, so I think this book fills a necessary role. The stories in it are intriguing and often very lovely. However, I found that its position as the writer's first novel is very obvious. There is a lot of technical awkwardness that made me too aware of the author's process.

For example, the stories are told by different people but do not each have a distinctive voice. In fact, the voices of the characters...more

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Dec 23, 2007 langa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, book-club, loved-it, history, philippines

this book came to me as a gift from a dear friend and i was eager to read it, since my own family comes from the Philippines and this book tells the little known history of this country of over 7,100 islands. set in World War II during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. this novel puts great emotional demands on the reader, your heart breaks at the extreme suffering and tragedy of war and the ravages of colonialism. but ultimately you celebrate the strength of the human spirit and the c...more

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Aug 15, 2008 Sarahldalton rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone interested in human survival

Recommended to Sarahldalton by: a teaching collegue and a student

Stories are to humans as fur is to animals. This book, about the Filipino experience of the Japanese occupation of the Phillipines in WWII, is based on the author's family's own heirloom stories of the war. The Karangalan family, along with about 10 of their neighbors hide in their basement in order to avoid the Japanese discovering their existence. Tensions easily spark between the different characters over finding food, missing family members, surviving the terrors of war, etc. It is in these...more

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Feb 06, 2008 April rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sad to say, even though I am Filipino, I have never read a book by a Filipino author. This book takes place during WWII when the Japanese occupied the Philippines. While reading this book I called my mom she told me stories of my own family during that time. People do amazing things and find inner strength when faced with adversity.

The author does a great job in creating believable Filipino characters. I could imagine and hear the way the characters would talk and express themselves, it was won...more

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Dec 25, 2008 Rosa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Papa explains the war like this: 'When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.'" The elephants in question are the Americans and the Japanese, fighting for possession of the Philippines. The chickens are, of course, the ordinary Filipinos. Three of these "chickens" by turns tell us the story of the Japanese occupation as a small neighborhood near Manila literally goes underground, hiding in the cellar and swapping stories. This story was very well written and I enjoyed finding out ab...more

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Feb 20, 2009 melissa/missy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This book took me back to the Philippines--at least in terms of the food and flowers and folklore that I remember from the time I lived there. It's the story of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during WWII, and if I didn't feel such a connection to the Philippines, I probably would have like the book a lot less. There were a lot of technical problems (stilted dialogue, awkward transitions, etc.) that distracted me, but ultimately I enjoyed the folklore retellings enough that I can stil...more

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Aug 06, 2007 Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fascinating and disturbing historical fiction about what happened to the Filipino civilian poulation during WWII in the waning days of the Japanese occupation. While it is fiction, the author used stories and lore from her own family (who lived in the Phillipines during this tumultuous period) to augment her research & yield personal perspective on the story. She weaves the wartime drama that a group of Filipino civilians endured with stories and folklore from their past, creating a powerful...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Jo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I discovered this book cleaning out my shelves. I don't remember buying it but it was a long time ago. The US dollar price was $14.00, the Canadian dollar price was $21.00.

This is about the fighting in WWII between the US and Japan on Philippine soil. The mingling of personal histories with the account of the toll the war took on the Philippine citizens added additional insights and history of the region. Regrettable that so many people around the world are caught in the same crossfires of war...more

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Mar 11, 2008 Amber dePixi rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Beautiful, painful, passionate...this was my first touch at reading about the Philippines during WWII. Sadly, we didn't learn about the American or Japanese occupation of these islands in school here in America.

Brace yourself for pain and strife interspersed with beautiful tales of hope and wonder woven by the characters who hide from the battles raging around them. The point of view changes from character to character and quite effectively so! It makes it more personal and easier to follow.

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May 13, 2013 Pam Romualdez rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I can imagine how non-Filipinos would regard this book as somewhat like a great piece of writing giving glimpse into a foreign culture as books like The Joy Luck Club, So Far From God, or House of the Spirits does. But if I was to nit-pick, I thought the author could've ensured the correct grammar and spelling of some of the Filipino phrases and words she used. I liked it well enough, specially the flashback stories of folklore by the war-time characters; and the story is sad, no doubt, one that...more

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May 12, 2013 Ronit rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

War is brutal. Always. This is the first book I've read about war in the Philippines and it gave me a deeper understanding of a nation caught in the middle of other nations' needs. A group of neighbors hide out together in one family's home. Just when you think you can't stand reading another word about suffering, the next chapter is a story, beautifully told, by one of the family members in hiding together. Through each story we gain a deep understanding of each of the neighbors. The caring, su...more

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Jul 28, 2012 Anna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Tess Uriza Holthe has a lot of brio attempting to take on the horrific Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, as well as Filipino tradition, folklore, and geography, all while explaining this mass to a (presumedly) Western audience.

Unfortunately, this attempt to make an extremely representative Filipino work (as she indicates she intended to do in the intro of my edition) may have crippled the ultimate product.

Not that there isn't a lot of good in the no...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I nodded in disappointment. I promised Grandfather I would not search for Mang Minno, and at the time I felt it in my heart to be true, but that is the way it is for liars.

When Elephants Dance is an extremely well-written novel about the Filipino experience during WWII's occupation by the Japanese of the Philippine island at the time that the American's had returned to the island and the danger was at it's pinnacle. The story follows three individuals connected to Mang Carlito's family: his youn...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Caryl Velas rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tess Uriza Holthe has written and told a story like no other. Unlike many books read before, Holthe's words come off the page as if they were illuminated and come to life with every lingering detail. The novel takes place in the final week of World War II in the Philippine Islands as the Japanese and American forces engage in war fighting for the possession of the Philippines. The Karangalan family and their neighbors are take refuge in a cellar passing time by telling folk lores based on Filipi...more

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Dec 24, 2011 Anita Laydon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult

Imagine there is a world war raging right outside your front door. Another country has invaded yours, and your family must hide in the cellar to escape capture. Several neighbors join you in hiding, and except for intermittent scavenging, the whole lot of you must remain in the cellar day after day, fighting hunger, illness, and frustration with each other. Struggling with the events unfolding around you, you and your neighbors tell magical stories to cope and teach lessons.

That is the premise...more Imagine there is a world war raging right outside your front door. Another country has invaded yours, and your family must hide in the cellar to escape capture. Several neighbors join you in hiding, and except for intermittent scavenging, the whole lot of you must remain in the cellar day after day, fighting hunger, illness, and frustration with each other. Struggling with the events unfolding around you, you and your neighbors tell magical stories to cope and teach lessons.

That is the premise of WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE, a debut novel by Tess Uriza Holthe. Set in the waning days of World War II, as Japanese fight Americans over possession of the Philippine Islands, the novel is a dramatic display of history combined with exceptional storytelling.

WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE is a story of courage and compassion and provides interesting insight into Filipino culture. Many of the stories shared by the war-ravaged characters are based on tales handed down to Holthe from her family. An action sequence from which Holthe’s novel was born is based on her father’s experience as a young boy foraging for food during World War II. Holthe’s father was captured and mistaken for a rebel soldier, by the Japanese. His story became the opening scene for WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.

My entire interview with Holthe is available through my blog (if you read this book, you’re going to want to know about this author and her work), but the answer to one of her questions particularly resonated with me. I explained to Holthe that while I have almost no personal Filipino connections, I loved her writing. Then I asked her thoughts about what draws non-Filipino readers, like me, to her book. This is what Holthe had to say:

“I think the themes are universal: love of family, what you hold dear, rethinking the future you had planned for yourself. During wartime everything is under such extreme conditions that each decision, each gesture takes on a gravitas, an immediacy and what remains is what you love and want to protect, everything else falls away. War tests everyone’s mettle and to be put in such cramped quarters, having to spend it with a disparate group of people brings out very noble and very selfish aspects in us all. The sociology of that kind of thing, a melting pot and a cauldron at the same time, I suppose makes for interesting reading. It made for interesting writing.”

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Dec 13, 2010 Book Concierge rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

First sentence: [i]Papa explains the war like this: “When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.”[/i]. I first picked up this book because of the title and this opening line. The elephants in this tale are the Japanese and Americans fighting over the Philippines. The Filipinos are the chickens.

The novel takes place during WWII, towards the end of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. The Filipinos had suffered greatly during those three years of occupation. They were starving, a...more

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Jan 04, 2009 Maltaise rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found this book by luck when I decided to go to the bookstore on my lunch hour. The book tells the story of numerous individuals who find themselves together in the last days of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Folklore is a large part of Philippino culture. Each individual tells their story about how the war has affected them and their role in the war along with a folklore story.
This is one of my favourite books-probably because I was unfamiliar with the subject matter.

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Jul 27, 2012 Cheryl A rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction

Told through three voices - 13 year old Alejandro, his older sister Isabelle and guerilla leader Domingo, this debut novel is a recounting of the Japanese occupancy of the Philippines and the Battle of Manila. The Karangalan family has taken to the cramped cellar of their home, along with a number of their neighbors, trying to avoid the Japanese forces and hoping to survive the upcoming battle. With food shortages forcing the group to send individuals out to forage for food, the older children g...more

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Nov 11, 2012 Cheryl rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Cheryl by: Judy

Shelves: around-the-world, war-stories, asia

Seriously, this book was like drinking cold guava juice on a sweltering day. It is World War II and the Americans are fighting to take back control of the Philippines. Meanwhile, the Filipinos must hide and wait out the war because the ones caught are being tortured and held in Japanese camps.

"Papa says that the Philippines is far, far behind the other countries. He says that we are like abused children who have never been allowed to grow. How can we care for ourselves when we have always been t...more Seriously, this book was like drinking cold guava juice on a sweltering day. It is World War II and the Americans are fighting to take back control of the Philippines. Meanwhile, the Filipinos must hide and wait out the war because the ones caught are being tortured and held in Japanese camps.

"Papa says that the Philippines is far, far behind the other countries. He says that we are like abused children who have never been allowed to grow. How can we care for ourselves when we have always been told what to do? How can we stand together when so much division has been created among us? He says I must pray there there will not be another war such as this, for we may not survive a next time. He tells me that we have been granted a second chance now that the Amerikanos have given us back out independence."

The story follows a couple of Filipino families through some main characters: Alejandro, a young boy; Isabelle, the young girl who wants to become a medical doctor, and Domingo, the guerrilla commander who fights against the Japanese. The rest of their families wait out the war in the basement of a house and when they must talk about themselves, they use folklore.

The book was written in present tense so I wasn't sure how it would read, but as soon as I started reading it, I knew that Tess Holthe holds her own among master storytellers. If you've ever sat around a fire to listen to folklore, maybe you've drank coffee with a veteran or war survivor who was willing to talk about his/her experiences, or if you are in fact a war survivor, you will find things in this book that will either have you nodding in agreement, or will bring back some memories. Some parts of the story touched me in a personal way, I must say. The only reason it doesn't get a 5 for me is because although I loved the story-telling by the characters in the basement, some seemed too long that they stalled the main story taking place (though "A cure for happiness" was my favorite).

The book embraces the Filipino culture by giving you history through narrative and folklore, even going back to the Spanish influence on the Philippines and the discrimination and classicism. There is conflict in every chapter, and the plot is fast-paced and adrenaline filled. What sets it apart from other war stories is the focus on the "guerrillas." Why is it that people rarely write about them when every war has them?

The love story that follows the guerrilla Domingo and his love triangle was one of my favorite parts of the book; especially since it doesn't end in the way you would expect.

(Thanks, Judy for shipping me this marvelous book to read :-) (less)

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Apr 04, 2009 Kerry rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another great story about the Phillipino account of the horrors they suffered during WWII. Very poignant and extremely readable.

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Apr 01, 2008 Faith rated it 1 of 5 stars

While it was fascinating to learn more about the Philippines involvement in WWII and their culture overall, I absolutely detested this book. The author is courageous in telling her family's heart-breaking story of survival through the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the war, but the subject matter was so disturbing and her tale so graphic, I had nightmares for a week. Read the Children of the Promise series instead if this topic interests you.

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TESS URIZA HOLTHE is the author of the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling When the Elephants Dance. She grew up on a Filipino-American family in San Francisco. When the Elephants Dance is inspired, in part, by the experiences of her father, who was a young boy in the Philippines during World War II.

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