A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear. Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers.This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. She deftly creates a whole world, giving a sense of the origins of class, ethnic and cultural differences that alternately divide and fascinate us today. Magnificent, and a privilege to be able to read it.
A compelling historical drama with every modern trait of the human being, but set in the days when the world was young. All life is here in all its glory, the loves, the jealousy, the rivalry, the medicines. Moving and majestic, this story sweeps all before it and encompasses everything we know about our ancestors as they trek through central Europe and set up home in the caves there. It's as though Auel has opened up a time portal, travelled with and lived with actual human beings as they begin their journey towards the people we are today. If you ever wondered what it was like for the first reasoning humans, this is the perfect way to learn. Jean Auel's amazing, ground-breaking series reaches a stunning conclusion. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 9780340824276 Number of pages: 800 Weight: 554 g Dimensions: 201 x 172 x 39 mm MEDIA REVIEWS A remarkable work of imagination' Daily Express 'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Land of Painted Caves is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual. Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering the terrain, dwelling places, longings, beliefs, creativity and daily lives of Ice Age Europeans as real to the reader as today's news.
Yet Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.Īyla, Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla are home. The triumphant finale in the Earth's Children series, Jean M.
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