Dolina konja
After the extraordinary success of her first novel The Tribe of the Cave Bear, which soon became a bestseller, this American writer soon wrote the novel Valley of the Horses, as the second part of a broad-based saga about life in prehistoric times.
Although the Valley of Horses is an organic continuation of the first novel, it is an independent book, because it retells everything from the first book that is necessary to logically follow the plot thread. The heroine of both books, the Cro-Magnon woman Aila - who grew up among the evolutionarily backward Neanderthals, but was exiled from that tribe - wanders the steppe in order to find members of her race. In parallel, the story of Jondalar, who descends from the Alps down the Danube; on that ritual journey, he and his young brother experience many exciting adventures through which the life of the Cro-Magnons is presented as a counterweight to what has already been learned about the life of the Neanderthals.
When Ajla and Jondalar meet in extraordinarily dramatic circumstances, instead of a happy ending, a long and difficult establishment of ties between the two "civilizations" begins. That entire period was permeated with the creation and realization of a very touching love. Ajla was finally "rescued", but only now awaits her real return to the community where she was not raised - and this is the announcement of the inevitable third book, which has already been published in the USA.
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