Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Translator: Na-kyong Lee
Publisher: Hongik
ISBN : 9788970656670(8970656677) Hardcover 183*135mm
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About This Book
Those familiar with the author's landmark study, The Harmless People,
will not be surprised at the range of anthropological information she
brings to her first novel, or at the lucidity of her prose. What will
astonish, engross and move readers in her narrative of a group of
hunter-gatherers who lived 20,000 years ago is the dramatic immediacy of
the story and the depth and range of character development. A whole
culture is imaginatively and authoritatively illuminated, people who
live in lodges observing a complex series of societal rules and taboos
built around the interrelationships between families that constitute a
lineage. It is a life of privation, in which hunger, danger and violence
are pervasive. Survival depends on close observation of and intimacy
with the animals they use both as role models and as food, and an
understanding of the seasonal rhythms governing the annual migrations.
We meet the protagonist, Yanen, as a young girl, living with her family
in what is now Siberia. Just a few chapters into the narrative, she dies
and becomes a spirit who must serve the members of her lodge by finding
food for them, often by taking on the form and behavioral
characteristics of animals or birds. The story proceeds in flashback as
Yanen relates the memories of her youth: the death of her mother after
childbirth and of her father from hunting wounds, leaving Yanen and her
baby sister alone in desolate country; their fearsome trek to rejoin
other members of their lineage; Yanen's marriage; the rash deeds that
cut her off from the people she loves and the tragic mistake that seals
her fate. Thomas never romanticizes her characters, nor does she demean
them by arch language or a patronizing tone. Yanen is an enchanting
young woman: intelligent and courageous, an excellent hunter, but also
headstrong and hot-tempered. Other characters are equally as vivid, and
as involving of the reader's emotions. Suspenseful, insightful,
poignant, this novelthe first to be issued under the Davison imprints a
remarkable achievement. --From Publishers Weekly
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