New Releases by Jean M. Auel

A true publishing phenomenon, Jean M. Auel''s prehistoric odyssey is one of the best-loved sagas of our time. Leave 21st century London and go back to Ice Age Europe. Follow Ayla, a Cro-Magnon child who loses her parents in an earthquake and is adopted by a tribe of Neanderthal, the Clan. See how the Clan''s wary suspicion is gradually transformed into acceptance of this girl, so different from them, under the guidance of its medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Immerse yourself in a world dictated by the demands of survival in a hostile environment, and be swept away in an epic tale of love, identity and struggle. All six parts of the legendary Earth''s Children® series are brought together in this eBook omnibus THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR THE VALLEY OF HORSES THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE THE SHELTERS OF STONE THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES 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. ''Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers.'' - Kirkus Reviews

Ayla abandona el Valle de los Caballos, donde había permanecido junto con su compañero Jondalar. Ahora, ambos emprenden un viaje que los llevará con los Mamutoi o Los Cazadores de Mamuts. Son personas que en principio le resultan extrañas y muy diferentes a Ayla. Sin embargo, poco a poco ella comienza a adaptarse a su nueva vida. Incluso llega a sentirse atraída por el magnético Renec, el maestro grabador, con el que compartirá nuevas experiencias.

A literary phenomenon, Jean M. Auel’s prehistoric odyssey is one of the best-loved sagas of our time. Employing meticulous research and the consummate artistry of a master storyteller, Auel paints a vivid panorama of the dawn of modern humans. Through Ayla, an orphaned girl who grows into a beautiful and courageous young woman, we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world, home to the Clan of the Cave Bear. Now, for the first time, all six novels in the Earth’s Children® series are available in one convenient eBook bundle: THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR THE VALLEY OF HORSES THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE THE SHELTERS OF STONE THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES A natural disaster leaves a 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 the Clan’s next leader sees Ayla’s 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. Praise for the Earth’s Children® series “Auel is a highly imaginative writer. She humanizes prehistory and gives it immediacy and clarity.”—The New York Times Book Review “Storytelling in the grand tradition . . . From the violent panorama of spring on the steppes to musicians jamming on a mammoth-bone marimba, Auel’s books are a stunning example of world building. They join the short list of books, like James Clavell’s Shogun and Frank Herbert’s Dune, that depict exotic societies so vividly that readers almost regard them as ‘survival manuals.’ ”—Vogue “Jean Auel has established herself as one of our premier storytellers. . . . Her narrative skill is supreme.”—Chicago Tribune “Pure entertainment at its sublime, wholly exhilarating best.”—Los Angeles Times “Readers who fell in love with little Ayla will no doubt revel in her prehistoric womanhood.”—People “Lively and interesting, enhanced greatly by the vividly colored backdrop of early humanity . . . Auel is a prodigious researcher.”—The Washington Post Book World “Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers. . . . She deftly creates a whole world, giving a sense of the origins of class, ethnic, and cultural differences that alternately divide and fascinate us today.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The highly anticipated sixth book of Jean Auel''s Earth''s Children® series, The Land of Painted Caves, is the culmination fans have been waiting for. Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago. The Land of Painted Caves is an exquisite achievement by one of the world''s most beloved authors.

Det begyndte med Hulebjørnens klan... Nu er Ayla tilbage! Med Hulernes sang afslutter Jean M. Auel sagaen om istidspigen Ayla - en af verdens største bogsucceser, med et salg på mere end 45 millioner eksemplarer verden over. I Hulernes sang fortsættes sagaen om istidspigen Ayla. Som femårig måtte hun lære at overleve i en storslået og nådesløs natur, da et jordskælv udslettede alle hendes nærmeste. Siden blev hun optaget i en klan af neandertalere, hvor hun levede som outsider og blev oplært af medicinkvinden Iza. Udstødt fra klanen måtte hun igen klare sig på egen hånd, lære at jage og helbrede sig selv. Hun tæmmede en hest og opfostrede en ulv, som blev hendes nærmeste venner, og hun mødte en enlig rejsende, Jondalar, som tog hende med til sit folk og gjorde hende til sin mage. Sammen har de nu fået datteren Jonayla, og Ayla er i træning til at blive Zelandoni, en spirituel leder og healer. Det er et ærefuldt hverv, men også svært at forene med hendes nye rolle som mor. På trods af at hun nu er tilbage hos et folk, der ligner hende selv, stikker hun ud på grund af sin mærkelige accent og fremmedartede væremåde. Ingen her har før set en kvinde, der har tæmmet en ulv og har en så enestående evnet til at aflæse naturen. Det er ikke alle, der er lige begjstrede for den fremmedartede kvinde.

Het slot van de met de NS Publieksprijs bekroonde serie De Aardkinderen De serie De Aardkinderen vertelt het verhaal van het mysterie van het ontstaan van de mensheid en de harde strijd om in de prehistorie te overleven. Jean Auels boeken hebben al miljoenen lezers meegevoerd naar de boeiende prehistorische wereld van Ayla en haar tijdgenoten. In dit zesde en laatste deel van de serie kunnen haar vele fans eindelijk lezen hoe het afloopt met Ayla, Jondalar en hun dochtertje Jonayla. De saga gaat verder met de opleiding die Ayla geniet tot Zelandoni, een spiritueel leider en genezer. Ze wordt de acoliet van de Zelandoni van de Negende Grot en ze begint aan een reeks intensieve reizen die deel uitmaken van haar heilige training. Maar het dagelijks leven in de prehistorie is zwaar en Ayla worstelt om de juiste balans te vinden tussen haar spirituele roeping en haar taak als jonge moeder van Jonayla. De gevolgen kunnen niet uitblijven en haar relatie met Jondalar komt onder spanning te staan... Wederom weet Jean Auel haar talent voor het vertellen van verhalen en het creëren van boeiende personages te combineren met een opmerkelijke herschepping van het leven zoals het duizenden jaren geleden door de mens werd geleefd. Het leefgebied, de schuilplaatsen, de verlangens, het geloof, de creativiteit en het dagelijks leven van de Zelandoniërs zijn allemaal net zo echt als de werkelijkheid die de lezer dagelijks op het nieuws ziet. Het lied van de grotten is een briljante prestatie van een van de meest geliefde schrijvers ter wereld. ‘***** Wellicht valt Auel te porren tot een zevende deel, want dit smaakt naar meer, veel meer...’ – Algemeen Dagblad ''Auels kracht is dat ze een klassieke good read combineert met wetenschappelijk gefundeerde informatie over het tijdvak waarin ze haar verhaal situeert: de jonge ijstijd. [...] Auel weet het allemaal kundig en gedetailleerd in haar vertelling te vervlechten.'' – de Volkskrant

(Versión para México y Centroamérica) Hace ya muchos años que Ayla, la niña cromañón y protagonista de la serie LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA©, fue expulsada del Clan del Oso Cavernario e inició su largo viaje por el continente europeo. Finalmente, en este libro, La tierra de las cuevas pintadas, se ha establecido en la Novena Caverna de los zelandonii, lugar de donde procede su compañero Jondalar, con quien ha tenido una hija muy deseada, llamada Jonayla. Ayla hace todo lo posible por encontrar el equilibrio entre sus nuevas obligaciones como madre y su preparación para convertirse en líder espiritual y en curandera, aunque no siempre lo consigue. Durante su formación también tiene oportunidad de viajar y visitar lugares desconocidos, entre ellos algunas cuevas, que le causan un gran impacto por las maravillosas pinturas que se encuentran en su interior, creadas por sus antepasados. En este sexto volumen, Jean M. Auel (Chicago, EU, 1936) continúa reconstruyendo lo que pudo ser la forma de vivir en la Prehistoria, con el rigor científico que caracteriza su obra.

This enhanced eBook includes: • Eight never-before-seen video interviews with Jean M. Auel where she discusses The Clan of the Cave Bear and the Earth’s Children® series: “You Must Be Able to Change in Order to Survive,” “Jondalar and Ayla,” “On Language," “Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals: The Crossbreeding Question,” “On Research (and Glaciers),” “The Domestication of Horses and Wolves,” “The Painted Caves,” and “What Is It Like Finishing a Series?” • An excerpt from The Land of Painted Caves • An Earth’s Children® series sampler • A text Q&A with Jean M. Auel • The full text of the novel 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 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.

The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills. But as Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla’s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii. Jean Auel is at her very best in this superbly textured creation of a prehistoric society. The Shelters of Stone is a sweeping story of love and danger, with all the wonderful detail—based on meticulous research— that makes her novels unique. It is a triumphant continuation of the Earth’s Children® saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear. And it includes an amazing rhythmic poem that describes the birth of Earth’s Children and plays its own role in the narrative of The Shelters of Stone. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series • A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series

This odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don’t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series • A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series

En aquesta segona entrega de la tetralogia Els fills de la terra, i que encapçala El clan de l''ós de les cavernes, ja publicat en butxaca dins d''aquest segell, l''autora, Jean M.Auel, reprèn el personatge de la bella Ayla, la noia de cromanyó cridada i posteriorment desterrada per un clan nòmada neardental.A la recerca de la seva gent, Ayla viatjarà sense rumb per les estepes, sota un fred glacial i amb l''única companyia de les feres, fins a trobar una vall amagada habitada per cavalls salvatges. Allà, en solitud, regnarà sobre els animals i aprendrà els secrets del foc i de la dura supervivència... Fins al dia que coneix Jondalar, un viatger errant de la seva raça, amb qui haurà d''afrontar un futur que es debat entre la por, el dubte i l''esperança.

Traditional Chinese edition of Clan of the Cave Bear. The Ice Age story is about human survival, compassion, tribal politics, and sacrifice. A little girl orphaned by earthquake, is nursed back to health by a rival clan woman, the only one cared enough to help her.

In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar''s mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can''t quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn''t just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed ''abominations.'' What would Jondalar''s tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel''s first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It''s an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age.

La insostenible situación con los cazadores de mamuts, en el tercer libro de la serie, obliga a Ayla y Jondaler a emprender un largo viaje hacia sus lugares de origen. El curso de su aventura a caballo será a través de grandes llanuras batidas por el viento en la Europa de la Era Glacial, entre inhóspitas barreras de glaciares. Recorrerán territorios ocupados por tribus de cazadores-recolectores que, por no conocer la domesticación de animales, ni métodos de curación, les consideraban seres enigmáticos y temibles. En su viaje a través del continente aprenderán que el mundo desconocido puede ser difícil y traicionero, pero también, profundamente bello y aleccionador. Ambos se acercan cada vez más a ese sitio en la tierra al que todos llaman hogar.

Dotada de gran habilidad narrativa y haciendo gala de la misma vÍvida autenticidad que plasmó en El clan del oso cavernario y su continuación, El valle de los caballos, Jean M. Auel sigue el imponente y épico viaje de la mujer llamada Ayla. Acompañada de Jondalar, el hombre al que ama, cabalgando sobre Relinchona, su yegua, y seguidos por el potro de ésta, Ayla se aventura en la tierra de los Mamutoi: los cazadores de mamuts. Por fin ha encontrado a los Otros, a quienes ha estado buscando. Los Otros la adoptan debido a su notable habilidad para la medicina y la caza y su extraordinaria técnica para encender el fuego. Luego de traer al cachorrito de un lobo al que ha matado, Ayla también les enseña la forma en que domestica animales. Hace amigas, tiene dolorosos recuerdos del Clan que abandonó y conoce a Ranec, un moreno y magnético hombre, experto en la talla del marfil, y al cual ella no puede rechazar; esto provoca en Jondalar unos celos feroces; pero él la evita para tratar de controlarlos. Poco familiarizada con las costumbres de los Otros, Ayla se equivoca, piensa que Jondalar ya no la ama y se acerca cada vez más a Ranec. La tensión aumenta a lo largo del helado invierno, pero las temperaturas más cálidas traen la caza de los grandes mamuts y los rituales de parejas en el Encuentro del Verano, en donde Ayla debe escoger entre quedarse junto a Ranec y los Mamutoi, o seguir a Jondalar en un largo viaje hacia un futuro desconocido.

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.

This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don’t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.

The fifth installment of Auel''s Earth''s Children series, a sweeping story of love and danger with all the wonderful detail based on meticulous research, is available in this Spanish language edition and continues the saga which began with The Clan of the Cave Bear.

Esta novela de gran vigor y asombrosa belleza es una conmovedora saga acerca de los seres humanos, sus relaciones y los límites del amor. A través de la magnifica narrativa de Jean M. Auel, regresamos a los albores de la civilización moderna, y en compañía de una nina Ilamada Ayla, penetramos en la cruda y a la vez hermosa Edad de Hielo y en el mundo que los hombres y mujeres de esa época compartieron con quienes se Ilamaban a si mismos, el Clan del oso cavernario. Un desastre natural deja a la niña errando sola por una tierra desconocida y peligrosa, hasta que la encuentra una mujer que pertenece al Clan, un grupo de gente muy distinta de la suya. A medida que Ayla aprende acerca del modo de vida del Clan y sobre los métodos curativos de Iza, la mayoría acaba por aceptarla y hasta Iza y Creb, el viejo Mog-ur, llegan a quererla. Es el brutal y orgulloso joven, destinado a ser su próximo líder, quien percibe en su manera de ser diferente, una amenaza en contra de su autoridad. Entonces, desarrolla hacia la extraña chica que vive entre ellos y que pertenece a los Otros, un odio constante y profundo, y está decidido a vengarse.

Im vierten Band des spannenden Zyklus "Die Kinder der Erde" reitet die schöne und kluge Ayla mit ihrem Gefährten Jondalar durch das Tal des Grossen Mutter Flusses - Jondalars Heimat entgegen. Grosse Gefahren sind zu überwinden. Sie begegnen treuen Freunden und erbitterten Gegnern, doch beiden sind sie an Fähigkeiten und Erfindungsreichtum überlegen. Jean M. Auel ist Jahrgang 1936. Nach ihrem Wirtschaftsdiplom sucht sie 1977 eigentlich nach einem gutbezahlten Job im Bankwesen, um ihre Kinder zu ernähren. Parallel dazu beginnt sie einen Roman zu schreiben, und als sie eine Führungsposition angeboten bekommt, ist sie bereits mit Leidenschaft Schriftstellerin. Um weiterschreiben zu können, verzichtet sie auf das sichere Gehalt. Zu Recht, denn ihre Steinzeit-Romane werden zu Knüllern mit Kultcharakter. Jean M. Auel ist fünffache Mutter und vielfache Grossmutter und lebt in Oregon.

Le long périple d''Ayla et de Jondalar touche à son terme. Après un voyage épique à travers l''Europe, les deux héros de la grande saga " Les enfants de la terre " arrivent à l''emplacement de la Neuvième Caverne, un camp de l''âge de pierre situé dans ce que l''on appellera de nombreux millénaires plus tard le Périgord. C''est là que Jondalar retrouve la tribu qui l''a vu naître, et qui se réjouit de son retour. L''accueil fait à l''étrangère qui l''accompagne est plus mitigé. Cette femme parle avec un accent curieux et, surtout, est suivie par un loup et deux chevaux sur lesquels elle exerce un pouvoir troublant. Mais, si la rescapée du Clan étonne les Zelandonii, ceux-ci la surprennent tout autant par leur faon de vivre dans leurs confortables abris-sous-roche et par la splendeur des peintures dont ils ornent leurs grottes. Alors qu''elle donne naissance à un enfant très attendu, la jeune femme prend conscience du rôle qu''elle est appelée à jouer dans la destinée des Zelandonii... Dans ce cinquième volume de sa somptueuse saga préhistorique, Jean Auel puise de nouveau dans ses connaissances scientifiques pour décrire avec son immense talent de conteuse les débuts de l''agriculture et de la domestication des animaux, ainsi que ce tournant dans l''histoire de l''humanité que représenta la maîtrise de la pensée abstraite, du langage et de l''art.

La fin des aventures d''Ayla, la "première femme de l''histoire de l''humanité"

Passé la surprise et l''émerveillement suscités par Ayla, la jeune étrangère aux cheveux blonds qu''ils ont recueillie, les hommes du " clan de l''ours " ont pris peur de ses dons extraordinaires. Parce qu''elle prétend chasser comme les hommes, parce qu''elle sait rire et pleurer, éprouve des sentiments inconnus d''eux, parce qu''elle voudrait garder son enfant pour elle seule enfin, Ayla sera maudite et exilée. " Pars à la recherche de ton peuple, lui a dit Iza la guérisseuse. Va vers le nord, retrouve ton clan et un compagnon." Un long voyage solitaire commence, au bout duquel Ayla rencontre deux jeunes gens insouciants et aventureux. L''un d''eux est Jondalar. Comme elle, il est blond et ses yeux sont bleus.

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.

(And the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills.