Elephant Song (Smith novel)

{{short description|1992 novel by Wilbur Smith}}

{{for|the 1982 novel by Barry Longyear|Elephant Song (Longyear novel)}}

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| name = Elephant Song

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| image = Elephant Song - bookcover.jpg

| caption = First UK edition

| author = Wilbur Smith

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| country = South Africa

| language = English

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| publisher = Macmillan

| release_date = February 4, 1992

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| pages = 498 pp.

| isbn = 978-0679408994

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Elephant Song is a 1991 novel by Wilbur Smith.[http://www.wilbursmithbooks.com/books/standalone/elephant-song Elephant Song] at Wilbur Smith's website{{Cite news|title=An African Tragedy|author=Bencivenga, Jim|date=Mar 18, 1992|work=The Christian Science Monitor|page=15}} Publishers Weekly stated that the novel contained "some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith's fans and other action-addicted readers."[http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-679-40899-4 Review] at Publishers Weekly, accessed 18 May 2013

It was the third-highest selling novel in England in 1992.{{Cite news|title=The fastsellers of 1992|date=Jan 12, 1993|work=The Guardian|page=A10}}