Punane hunt

Wild Things #4

by Elizabeth Laird, Tatjana Peetersoo (Translator)

Hundi karv oli erksat punakaspruuni värvi ja mõnusalt paks. Tema tumedad merevaigukollased silmad vaatasid kartmatult Afra silmadesse.
Üksildasel mägiplatool satub Afra silm silma vastu ühe maailma kõige haruldasema loomaga -- etioopia hundiga. Nende ilusate loomade ellujäämine näib olevat mingil moel sügavalt seotud tüdruku püüdega välja selgitada, kas tema enda ammu kaotsi läinud pereliikmed on elus. Meeleheitlik soov hundid päästa sunnib teda hundikutsikate urgu kaitstes kohutavalt riskima. Selle riski tõttu satub Afra ise suurde ohtu...

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Laird was born in New Zealand in 1943, the fourth of five children. Her father was a ship's surgeon; both he and Laird's mother were Scottish. In 1945, Laird and her family returned to Britain and she grew up in South London, where she was educated at Croydon High School.
When she was eighteen, Laird started teaching at a school in Malaysia. She decided to continue her adventurous life, even though she was bitten by a poisonous snake and went down with typhoid.

After attending the university in Bristol, Laird began teaching English in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She and a friend would hire mules and go into remote areas in the holidays.

After a while at Edinburgh University, Laird worked in India for a summer. During travel, she met her future husband, David McDowall, who she said was very kind to her when she was airsick on a plane. The couple were married in 1975 and have two sons, Angus and William.

Laird has also visited Iraq and Lebanon. She claims to dislike snakes, porridge and being cold but enjoys very dark chocolate, Mozart, reading and playing the violin in the Iraq Symphony Orchestra.

She currently lives in Richmond, London with her husband.