Publication

2011 - Bantam Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

123,500 words, Guess

Page Count

494 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780553381672
  • Open LibraryOL25050700M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3551.U36 C57 2002
  • LCCPS3551.U36 C57 2011

Description

The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 novel and epic work of prehistoric fiction by Jean M. Auel about prehistoric times. It is the first book in the Earth's Children book series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans. ---------- Also contained in: [Earth's Children](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2746374W)

First Sentence

The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river.

Excerpt

The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river.

Excerpt

La nina desnuda salio corriendo del cobertizo de cuero hacia la playa rocosa en el recodo del riachuelo.

Description

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. 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. 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. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.

Subjects

Places

People

IzaBrunCrebAylaBroudOthersClan of the Cave Bear

Times

Glacial epoch

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