La casa de los primates | Sara Gruen | book new | sale

Sara Gruen

SUMA de letras | 2011

492 | 11h 51m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

23cm x 15cm | 662gr

An absorbing, moving and uplifting story of how six bonobo monkeys change the lives of three people. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Apes Language Laboratory, does not understand people but she does understand apes, especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzo, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani and Makena, who are capable of reasoning and communicating in American Sign Language. Isabel feels more at ease with them than she has ever felt among humans, until she meets John Thigpen, a journalist focused on her marriage who is writing a human interest article. When an explosion blows up the laboratory, John's chronicle becomes the story of his life and Isabel is forced to interact with her own kind to save her primate family from a new form of exploitation by humans.