The Eye of the wolf
the Eye of the wolf is a novel of Daniel Pennac published in 1984.
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In a zoo, a child and a one-eyed old man wolf fix themselves, eye in the eye. All the life of the wolf ravels at the bottom of its eye: a life threatened by the Men. The eye of the child tells the life of a small African who traversed all the Africa to survive, and which has an invaluable gift: that to tell stories which make laugh and dream.
Summary
The prolonged face-to-face discussion and apparently dumb man enter an old wolf of Alaska and a African child, on both sides of the grid of an urban zoo. One sees ravelling the former life of the other, plunging at the bottom of its eye, therefore of its memories. For the first, the free life in the Far North, the tracking, the capture, the captivity… For the second, orphan of a war, the wanderings through Africa… Their roads will cross in the zoo of what, for them, is another World.
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