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672 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1986
She would attack anything that lay in her way. She was in the grip of Nature’s great instinct to preserve her issue. Suddenly, Akbara felt herself engulfed by a great surge of tenderness, by the need to touch and warm the unborn cubs, and to give them her milk, as though they had already arrived. It was a foretaste of the happiness to come.
‘Get him! Get him! In the ribs! Get his wind!’ shouted the maddened Petrukha, twisting Avdiy’s arms behind his back to lay him open to a rain of blows from Makhach who, like a mad bull, was lashing at the pit of his stomach. Avdiy folded and collapsed, coughing blood, on the floor of the truck. The three of them started dragging him towards the door but he still resisted, breaking his nails as he grabbed for the boards of the floor, kicking and struggling…

