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- Verlag: Random House Audio; Auflage: abridged edition (1. September 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0553473689
- ISBN-13: 978-0553473681
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 18 x 11,4 x 2,8 cm
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When scientist Yute Nahadeh finds the frozen, perfectly preserved corpse of a Neanderthal woman buried in the northern tundra, he's stunned, especially when he discovers what he believes is a viable fetus in the woman's womb. Believing he can "breed" a baby Neanderthal and thus claim his place in scientific history, Yute bribes an adolescent Quanoot Indian girl to have the fetus implanted in her womb. When the child is born, the starry-eyed mom wrests the baby from Yute's greedy grasp to take home to her tribe. Little Ember grows into an odd-looking adult who's athletically gifted, tawny skinned, and blessed with unique healing powers. But she's too different to fit into her family, her tribe, or society. Her extreme loneliness leads her to Yute to find clues to her past and her parentage. Canter's story is unique and appealing, with an engaging heroine, furious action, and intriguing tidbits of history, archaeology, and Native American culture. Negatives: the plot, while imaginative, nonetheless strains credibility; the writing is often formulaic; and Canter tries too hard to make the story meaningful with a capital M. Still, give this first-time author an E for effort, and expect the book to attract considerable attention. Emily Melton
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Neanderthals (who disappeared from the world 40,000 years ago) get a new lease on life in this impressive, engrossing debut novel. While visiting his Indian homeland, Yute Nahadeh (who forsook Alaska to become a world-class paleoanthropologist) unearths from an ice cave a perfectly preserved young woman of great antiquity. Yute smuggles his find back to a Seattle lab and discovers that she was pregnant at her death. Eager to study what he's convinced will be a Neanderthal offspring, the young scientist pays a runaway Indian girl to take the embryo to term. After the birth of a healthy baby girl, however, the surrogate mother refuses to let Yute have her. In consequence, the child grows up as Ember Ozette in a remote fishing village on the Washington State coast. Endowed with a glowing golden skin, speech impediments, a strapping physique, and far greater strength than contemporaries of either sex, Ember appreciates early on that she's very different from other kids. In the meantime, Yute, who has been observing his prot‚g‚ from afar, makes contact with Ember and, in desperation, kidnaps her. Unwilling to serve as a living lab specimen, Ember escapes his clutches and heads north to her ancestral home in Alaska. Once there, she learns that a gold-mining enterprise is going to destroy a subterranean burial ground housing her people. Desperate to preserve her heritage, Ember takes on the villainous exploiters. In the ensuing donnybrook, Yute redeems himself by saving Ember's life (at the cost of his own) and a cavern full of so-called Heart-Talkers who can be cloned. At the close, Ember, who has given birth to a son, settles into a remote Alaskan valley that promises to prove a happy hunting ground for the prehistoric humans whose revival she presages. An effective blend of scientific fact and shamanistic fancy, one that weaves a genuinely magic spell. (First printing of 100,000; Literary Guild selection; author tour) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Me cautibó ya al principioy como dijo otro de los que han dejado "constancia" no quise que terminara de hecho cuando llegaba a este no esperado final hacia pausas en mi lectura para que el final no llegase tan rapido, la verdad que la historia de Ember en cierta forma le identifica de una manera muy especial, porque cuando uno no se ha sentido algo "diferente" y haber refleccionado sobre el verdadero sentido de la propia "existencia", por otro lado el libro deja esa "querer" de que realmente exista esa Ember en la tundra nordica; me asombró que fuera la primera obra del autor ya que la vi tan "completa" que me resultó dificil creermelo, sin más sinceramente recomiendo éste libro ya que a parte de una preciosa historia lleva a la reflección y lleva a otros interesantes reflecciones y a otras lecturas que leyendolo despertaran en uno....;)
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In many respects, this is a promising first novel. The premise is a tantalizing one, rich with possibilities. It has to be one of the deepest held desires of modern people -- the wish to somehow "redeem" the fallen world we inhabit by bring the world we have lost back to life. Given where the currents of modern culture seem to be taking us, from Hollywood daydreams like Juraissic Park to talk of cloning a woolly mammoth or tasmanian tiger, the idea of bringing back to life archaic humans couldn't be anything less than compelling. And, so long as Canter sticks to this premise, _Ember from the Sun_ is plausible, exciting, and in many places, funny and touching. Ember Ozette is a wonderful literary creation; in the novel's finest moments a reader can identify profoundly with her sense of incommensurable loss and alienation. However, the mystical backstory of the novel -- reincarnation, race memory, etc. -- comes off like semi-digested new age claptrap. For a far, far better integration of the religio-mystical and science fiction in a similar kind story, rent _Ice man_; John Lone's neanderthal stranded in time will bring you to tears. Still, this is worth reading unless you are completely allergic to new agey voodoo. Three and half stars.
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A camper who picked up your book.
5. September 2000
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To Mr. Canter, this being your first novel, I have found it very good. I am a hard reader to please and this novel has kept me interested for the entire book. I have read the reviews after I read the book and tend to agree with some of them. This was too broad a subject to place between the pages of this novel. This subject could have been a trilogy. However, I totally disagree with the review of it being too much new age "voodoo". You have talent and promise. Write a sequel and give use hard pleasers something other to read than Ann Rice!
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Captivating story
26. Januar 2006
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This was a great book. I am like some of the other reviewers, I like King and Rice, and can be easily let down. This book did not let me down. It was very entertaining, and I liked the blend of history and fiction. Would definitely read more of his novels.
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Science and Mysticism compliment each other
8. September 2003
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As a scientist and a mystic, I eye both warily when i read novels. I found the anthropology believeable and the mysticism--though slightly unique--enhanced the humanity of this novel about a barely human protagonist. Liking and relating Amber is easy, and understanding her genetic make-up follows logic. Soon I forgot about the science though, and got lost in a story as sweet and gripping as any I have read. I typically read a book slowly, but this one prevented the lawn from getting mowed and the history papewrs from being graded as I read voraciously, engrossed in the people, the places, the anthropology, and the mystery.
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