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En intelligent og åndeløst nervepirrende roman om, hvor langt en mor vil gå for at redde sit barn, og om de dyriske sider i mennesket – på godt og ondt.Joan har helt glemt tiden på legepladsen i den zoologiske have, hvor hun kommer hver dag med sin fireårige søn Lincoln. Hun nyder de stjernestunder i hverdagen sammen med sin tænksomme lille dreng. Men i dag skal de skynde sig for at nå ud af porten inden lukketid. Da de nærmer sig udgangen, ser Joan noget, der på et splitsekund får hende til at løfte drengen op og løbe den modsatte vej – tilbage ind i haven.De næste tre timer bliver et mareridt af død og ødelæggelse, og en kamp for at overbevise Lincoln om, at alt er næsten som det plejer at være. Det mindste fejltrin kan få fatale følger for dem begge. På få sekunder har de smukke øjeblikke mellem mor og barn forvandlet sig til en vild overlevelseskamp. Vilde dyr udforsker hvor grænserne går mellem vores dyriske instinkt for overlevelse og vores moralske pligt til at beskytte hinanden i en zoo, hvor de vildeste dyr er mennesker
The gripping debut novel from the author of FIERCE KINGDOM, and a story about the power of the human spirit to give comfort in times of hardship.In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches from the darkness of her back porch as a strange woman lifts the cover off the family well and tosses a baby in without a word.It is the height of the Depression; while Tess's father, Albert, performs backbreaking and dangerous work at the mine, her mother, Leta, makes do without meat on her table. But the family are luckier than most; the food they can grow on their plot of land has so far saved them from the crippling poverty and near-starvation that besets their neighbours. As Tess tries to unravel the mystery of the woman at the well, a portrait emerges of a family and a community struggling to survive the darkest of times. Resonant, vivid and clear-eyed in its portrayal of both the best and the worst of human nature, The Well and the Mine is a stunning novel about love, hope and the importance of doing the right thing.
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