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“But Faulks’s novel is a worthy addition to this literary community. It’s important because it’s a different book to the others. It’s not about imagining Neanderthals in the past. It’s not even necessarily about imagining who Neanderthals were in their own world in relation to us now. It’s a book about all the complexities of the modern day and where Neanderthals might fit in. It’s science fiction, set slightly in the future. It involves an anthropologist, again, so there’s a little echo of The Last Neanderthal, but this is about genetic engineering.” Read more...
