Can prehistory be part of the genus of historical novel? Beyond the fictions oriented to the fantastic, the time of the proto-men is plunged into cabal from the small glimpses that science can offer on that distant anthropology of the days of the caves.
The point is that in the case of Claire cameron the answer to the first question becomes affirmative. Because in this novel we find that historical fiction full of documentation and the utmost rigor that allows us to approach those remote days.
We travel to tens of thousands of years ago, at the more or less successful moment in which the Homo neanderthalensis, a species that surely occupied Europe and Asia for several millennia. The physical characteristics of those humans were adapted to the need for that survival in search of the most natural evolutionary benefits that would allow certain advantages against predators and potential victims. Because long ago it was all about strength or skill. And the human being was standing out precisely towards that spark that led to the appearance of the sapiens (it is even believed that, in addition to the glaciations, it was these latter that were able to eradicate the former in a struggle marked by the evolutionary leap).
However, returning to the strictest theme of the novel, the author guides us to that supposed border that supposedly is some 30.000 years from our days. The cold marks the search for propitious spaces for one last family of Neanderthals. Since recent discoveries of a particular case of a young Neandetral. Claire composes this magical and tragic story in which the anthropologist Rose Gale tries to build a story about who she calls Chica.
The instinctive attunement between Chica and Rose, both with that germ of new life inside, serves to encompass what scientific studies fail to address. The lives of both progress in parallel from the projections that emerge from the symmetrical mirror of their lives on either side of our civilization.
Thus, thanks to this fascinating parallelism, we go from one side to the other in an exciting becoming full of contrasts. The protagonists, Chica and Rose tell us, with an almost existential point of view from motherhood, how things can happen, how feelings can be absolutely unison in our advanced world and in those days when survival depended on continuous adaptation and an instinct almost lost in our days about the best way to choose, despite the fact that everything points to the end of days ...
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