In the novel, a nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan.

在这本小说中，一个由杂耍演员组成的游牧家庭从罗马尼亚逃难出来，开着大篷车在欧洲和非洲巡演。

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Aglaja Veteranyi was born in Bucharest to a family of circus artists who toured Europe relentlessly until they finally settled in Switzerland.

Aglaja Veteranyi出生在布加勒斯特的一个杂耍演员家庭，他们在欧洲马不停蹄地巡演后，最终定居瑞士。

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Once, when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter.

曾在我十来岁的时，我和我的爸爸正站着排队买票看马戏表演，在卖票处和我们之间就仅仅有一帮家人。

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Born in Italy to a circus family of French origin, Mr Caroli was performing in Blackpool when the Second World War broke out and never left the resort.

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At an animal hotel, Babe falls in with a circus family of monkeys, including a hip chimpanzee couple and a morose orangutan the animals, who speak in dark ironies, have the real depression of lifetime circus performers.

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While the plot may recall other allegorical crossings (such as the one that the Knight, the Squire and the circus family undertake in Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal"), the power of Blackburn's book lies in her language and in her ability to conjure images that are at once spooky and heart-rending.

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