The Clan of the Cave Bear

Paperback, 451 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2002 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-38167-2
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OCLC Number:
1242288920

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5 stars (2 reviews)

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 …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Ayla (Fictitious character)
  • Prehistoric peoples
  • Glacial epoch
  • Women

Places

  • Europe