An epic journey through the ages that asks us to rethink what it really means to be human. June 7, 2019 – Posted in: Books – Tags: archeology, woman, pregnancy, science, history, maternity, Neanderthal
From the Brainfood Editorial and Floral books, the Eternal women it is a book that will move and enthrall you. The Canadian writer Claire Cameron, tells an original and extremely interesting story, starring two women who share common genes. Two women before and after Time, share the same path and unite in a unique way in a common path of survival.
The author began with the idea of finally having a female primitive star in a fictional story, in reaction to what she had read as a child about Neanderthals with all-male protagonists. Forty thousand years ago, the Girl, a Neanderthal woman struggles for survival and faces leopards and bison, the relentless winter and the starvation that accompanies it. THE Rose, a pregnant archaeologist in the present day, makes a surprising discovery: she finds the fossil of a Neanderthal next to the bones of a Homo sapiens. The link between the two women is the experience of motherhood and especially the moment of birth, that glorious moment that unites people's lives no matter how many millennia pass.
Fiction aside, they go together amazingly the latest scientific discoveries which overturn everything we knew so far about Neanderthals. They argue that they did not disappear as a species. On the contrary, somehow all modern humans, except Africans, have in their DNA a part (about 2%) of Neanderthal DNA, which proves that in the distant past these species interbred with each other.
"Claire Cameron reconnects us to our past, to the beginning of humanity. When you read it, the world around you will never be the same again– Herman Koch, author of The Dinner.
Claire Cameron is editor of the literary magazine The Millions and her texts have been published in New York Times, in the Los Angeles Review of Books and on the website Salon. Her novel The bear done number 1 bestseller in Canada and in 2014 was nominated for the Bailey Women's Literary Award. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.
