![]() It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age. 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. 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. 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. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. "Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals. Small light soiling to bottom right edge. ![]() Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Cream boards, orange spine w/silver letters Jacket typography Paul Bacon. ![]()
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