Ape House

10 hrs. 34 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Sara Gruen

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

Nowhere does human character reveal itself as clearly as in the way people treat animals—because they’re like children: defenseless, yet keenly responsive to lies, and they don’t forgive betrayal.
Isabel adored her charges—bonobo apes. She studied their behavior, and using a special language program she talked with them. Being with them was fascinating to her; it was her world, one she would never trade for anything in the world. Everything collapsed after a horrifying explosion in the laboratory—set off by people trying to profit from the bonobos. For them, Isabel’s pets are just amusing creatures you can stare at shamelessly and sell for money.
But Isabel, who miraculously survived the blast, has no intention of giving up. Bonobos must be returned to the laboratory at any cost. She has to clench her teeth, forget that only very recently—quite literally—she was gathered together from pieces, that the man she trusted betrayed her, and—fight. Because we are responsible for those who believe in us.