Forty thousand years ago, a woman Neanderthal she struggles for survival and comes face to face with leopards and bison, the relentless winter and the starvation that accompanies it. Rose, a pregnant archaeologist in the present day, makes a surprising discovery when she finds the fossil of a Neanderthal next to one's bones Homo sapiens. The link between the two women is the experience of motherhood – and in particular the moment of birth, that glorious moment that unites people's lives no matter how many millennia pass. The Eternal women it's an epic journey through the ages that asks us to rethink what it means to be human.
"THE Claire Cameron it reconnects us to our past, to the beginning of humanity. When you read it, the world around you will never seem the same again» – Herman Koch, author of The Supper
THE Claire Cameron she is the editor of the literary magazine The Millions and her texts have even been published in New York Times, in the Los Angeles Review of Books and on the culture website Salon. Her novel The bear became number 1 best seller in Canada and in 2014 was nominated for the Women's Literary Award Bailey. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.
- 2017 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize Finalist• National Bestseller
- Winner of the 2018 Evergreen Award • National Post Best Book of 2017
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