Refugium - Nicholas, Eric

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Résumé :

In the Last Surviving Forest of a Shattered World, Three Ancient Hominids Stand Against Brutal Invaders.

74,000 BCE. The Toba super-eruption has plunged Southeast Asia into volcanic winter. In this apocalyptic wasteland, survival lies only in rare, sheltered pockets of land -- refugia.

A young primitive man and the remnants of his clan find one such haven: a mist-shrouded forest shielded from the ash-choked world beyond. He is known as Last -- the smallest, weakest, an outcast among his people. His sole mission: protect his eight-year-old brother, the only family he has left.

But when a more advanced human species invades, slaughtering the clan and enslaving the women and children, Last must form an uneasy alliance with two dangerous forest hominids -- one dwarflike, the other monstrous -- to rescue the boy he loves.

Refugium is a fact-based prehistoric thriller set against one of Earth's deadliest extinction events. It boldly pushes the limits of hope, human endurance, and the most extraordinary interspecies alliance ever forged.

A brutal, thrilling novel about what it takes to become an apex predator.

-- Foreword Clarion Reviews

Refugium succeeds as both a gripping survival narrative and a profound meditation on human consciousness.

-- IndieReader