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Daughter of Kura : [a novel]

ISBN: 9781439112663
Physical Description: print 310 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Publisher: New York : Simon &amp; Schuster, c2009.

Austin, Debra 1957- (Author).

Summary: On the parched African earth more than half a million years ago sits the village of Kura, a matriarchal soceity of Homo erectus. Snap-a young passionate woman of Kura-is destined to lead her people, and this year she must select a mate for the first time. Will she choose someone different each year, or will she find one mate she wants to pick over and over again, like her mother, Whistle, the next leader of Kura?