Water for Elephants

Jacob Yankovsky is not lucky - a beggar, who lost his parents, without work, he is forced to wander around America of the Great Depression, until one day a train belonging to the gasoline brothers, the most magnificent on earth. Here he finds his place in the sun-he sets up to work as a veterinarian. So the circus on the wheels becomes for him, on the one hand, by salvation, on the other - an embodied hell. People similar to animals, animals with human hearts, gloomy, dangerous secrets and, of course, love.
Roman was a huge success. Over 10 million copies have been sold in the world. The book became a bestseller No. 1 according to New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Jornal. In the film shot according to the book (2011, director Francis Lawrence), Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz were shot