Escaping from Zoo

ABOUT THE TEXT : WRITER : THANOS KONDYLIS - TITLE : ESCAPING FROM ZOO - CATEGORY : NOVEL - PAGES : 587 - WORDS : 123.000 - LANGUAGE : ENGLISH -FIRST PRESENTATION : 2011 - CONTEMPORARY VERSION: 2012 (v. 2) - SUMMARY : Paris, 1870. The twelve years old Orpheus Lavoisier, a musical gifted child who dreams of becoming a great musician, lives with his grandfather at the city?s zoo and helps him to take care of the animals. A sudden war alters his plans. Paris is besieged and a revolution breaks out inside the city. One day during a riot Orpheus suffers a blow to the head. When he recovers he realizes that he can communicate with the animals. Then he hears of a rumor: many hungry citizens intend to massacre and eat his beloved animals. Orpheus decides to save his little friends. He secretly takes them out of the city in order to lead them to a nearby shore where an English ship awaits to save them.................................................Contact me at: thkamazon@yahoo.com................................................