Jean M. Auel is an American author whose works are set in prehistoric Europe. She believably explores the interactions between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. Her novels are valued for their ability to bring the past to life, offering readers a profound glimpse into the lives of our ancient ancestors. Her work delves into themes of survival, culture, and human development in a harsh, untamed world.
THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as 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. Once again, Jean 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.
Un'avvincente epopea negli spazi sconfinati dell'Europa preistorica, un clamoroso successo internazionale
790 pages
28 hours of reading
Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey—away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf; others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand; and some will threaten them. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home. Fourth in the acclaimed Earth’s Children® series
Il y a 35 000 ans, une longue période glaciaire s'achève et la Terre commence à se réchauffer. Lentement, durant des millénaires, l'homme s'est peu à peu dégagé de la bête et il apparaît à peu près tel qu'il est aujourd'hui. Il connaît l'outil, le feu, le vêtement. Il fabrique des armes pour chasser, aménage des grottes pour s'abriter. Dans le chaos de la nature, il est parvenu à créer un peu d'harmonie. En ces premiers temps du monde, Ayla, une fillette de cinq ans, échappe à un tremblement de terre et se sort des griffes d'un lion pour se réfugier auprès d'un clan étranger. On l'adopte. Très vite, les gestes et les paroles d'Ayla suscitent l'étonnement et l'inquiétude.
