The Wild Within
Paul Murray is an anthropologist who specializes in evolution and primates. He is slowly going through a quiet personal decline at a small African site, a paradise for naturalists. Paul has lived through a past filled with violence, and now, fifteen years later, he has moved on and even seems to have found love again.
Without realizing it, his field notes on a chimpanzee that has been recently dethroned as alpha male, uncannily mirror his present moment in life. However, in which he either does not see or does not want to see the new circumstances or the abnormal dynamics within his organization that are slowly suffocating him.
An unexpected event forces him to make a drastic decision to avoid losing everything he has fought to protect: the forest, the chimpanzees and the future of the inhabitants of the little paradise where the underlying irrationality of human beings becomes the new normal.
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Original Language
CATALAN | Empúries
Translation Rights
FRENCH | Éditions Gallmeister
SPANISH | Navona
Reviews
"A fascinating, dark, and demanding book, The Wild Within takes us into the depths of the night and is extremely disturbing but captivating." Libération
"With this intense and haunting novel, [Guallar] signs a formidable political and ecological thriller, struck by glaring violence and dark betrayals, as well as an original reflection that plunges to the deepest roots of our wild side." Rolling Stone France
"A moving page-turner!" Le Telegramme
"A story of rare power, carried by crafted writing and unforgettable characters, which confronts us with our own wild side." Mare Nostrum
"Ferran Guallar delivers a particular vision of life, skeptical but romantic, and connects to ecology and the fight for natural resources." Diari de Girona
"The Wild Within, like a tropical forest, is a dense and harmonious combination of plots and characters. Ferran Guallar interweaves the boundaries of nature and culture, animals and humans." Núvol
"A hybrid and unclassifiable text, with fluid and skillfully evocative language, the novel questions our relationship to life and the wild. We love it madly." Les Sauvages Bookstore (Marseille)
"Adventure, suspense, murderous madness too; [Guallar] pens this dark and hypnotic novel about our wild side. The novel, like a tropical forest, presents itself as a dense and fully harmonious combination of plots and excellent characters. Superb." Radio Zinzine