Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Auel, Jean M. |
| Publisher: | Bantam |
| Date: | 6/25/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships,and the boundaries of love.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we aretaken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are sweptup in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who calledthemselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.
A natural disaster leaves the young girlwandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a womanof the Clan, people very different from her own them, blond, blue-eyedAyla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved intotheir ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of theClan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proudyouth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threatto his develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl ofthe Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.
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