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The Clan Of The Cave Bear
(Jean M. Auel)

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A magical and thrilling novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel, sends the reader to a strange and remote world ? the Earth at the beginning of the modern mankind, during the Glacial Age 35,000 years ago, when the planet was young and clean, without the threat of extinction by pollution caused by human activity.One of the most interesting features in the novel is the evidence of Ms Auel´s extensive anthropological and botanical research, which enables the reader to apprehend all the complex aspects of the primitive men´s life and values. To the layman, the information is invaluable, since one seldom reads about such things in fiction.The central character in the novel is Ayla, a Cro-Magnon child raised by a group of Neanderthals. After losing her family in an earthquake, the five year old girl finds herself alone in the world, without any other human being around. She manages to survive for a few days, hungry, cold and terrorized, until she is attacked by a lion, which hurts her seriously in one leg, leaving in her thighs permanent scars of its powerful pawns. The infected wound almost kills Ayla, who is found senseless by a passing group of Neanderthals in search for a new cave. They do not want to burden themselves with a sick child, especially one of another species, but Iza, the Clan´s medicine woman, takes care of her, carries her on her powerful back until she is able to walk to the new cave and then adopts her.The story develops based mainly on the conflicts between two such different species. On the one hand, almost alone, an intelligent, blonde, hairless, tall, straight female child growing up, able to speak but having no one to speak to, protected by Iza and Creb, the holy man; on the other, a group of short, hairy, dark people, able to speak only through signs and a series of meaning sounds and who both fear and despise the child. While Ayla is capable of original thought and the will to experiment new ways ofthinking and of doing things, the Neanderthals live according to tradition and an ancient knowledge never questioned. Ayla, aware of being physically so different from the members of the Clan, agrees with them about her appearance and thinks of herself as ugly and ungainly. But she is really a beauty, according to patterns of her own species. Ayla´s and the Clan´s adventures throughout the book are a source of entertainment and knowledge, of fun and suspense and mainly of admiration for the author´s skill as a writer and storyteller. Ayla is an unforgettable character, with her courage, her skills, developed by instinct and determination, and her beauty. The final chapter, when she is obliged to leave her son with the Clan and go away alone to the vast and unknown world, armed only with her intelligence, her skill with primitive weapons and her determination to find the ?Others?, as the Clan call her own people, in her need to belong, makes the reader yearns for more. Which the author, generously, provides with the sequels The Valley of the Horses, The Plains of Passage and The Shelters of Stone, that bring back Ayla in new and challenging environments.
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