Marina Chapman

In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried to do what they did: copying their actions she slowly learned to fend for herself.So begins the story of her five years among the monkeys, during which time she gradually became feral; lost the ability to speak, lost all inhibition, lost any sense of being human, replacing human society with the social mores her new simian family. But society was eventually to reclaim her. At age ten she was discovered by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless Colombian city of Cucuta where, in exchange for a parrot, they sold her to a brothel. When she learned that she was to be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape. But her adventure was not over yet...In the vein of Slumdog Millionaire and City of God, this rousing story of a lost child who overcomes the dangers of the wild to finally reclaim her life will astonish readers everywhere.

The Girl With No Name

In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried to do what they did: copying their actions she slowly learned to fend for herself. So begins the story of her five years among the monkeys, during which time she gradually became feral; lost the ability to speak, lost all inhibition, lost any sense of being human, replacing human society with the social mores her new simian family. But society was eventually to reclaim her. At age ten she was discovered by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless Colombian city of Cucuta where, in exchange for a parrot, they sold her to a brothel. When she learned that she was to be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape. But her adventure was not over yet... In the vein of Slumdog Millionaire and City of God, this rousing story of a lost child who overcomes the dangers of the wild to finally reclaim her life will astonish readers everywhere.

En la línea de ¿Quién quiere ser millonario? y Ciudad de Dios, ésta es la conmovedora historia de una niña que supera los peligros de la selva y la brutalidad de las calles para finalmente retomar su vida y reconstruir su identidad. "Sucedió tan rápido, que es apenas un retazo de recuerdo. Estaba acuclillada en el suelo, concentrada, cuando una mano negra con un pañuelo blanco apareció de súbito, y antes de que tuviera siquiera la posibilidad de gritar me había cubierto la cara por completo...", así comienza la increíble historia de Marina Chapman. En 1954, en un pueblo entre Colombia y Venezuela, una niña de cuatro años es secuestrada y abandonada en la selva. Para no morir de hambre, comienza a imitar los hábitos de los monos capuchinos, hasta que por fin éstos la adoptan como un miembro más de la manada. Durante cinco años, Chapman arrinconó el lenguaje, desarrolló su sentido de supervivencia, olvidó su nombre y se integró en el mundo animal para formar una nueva familia. Pero esta aventura era sólo el comienzo. Cuando tenía alrededor de 10 años, y siendo ya una niña salvaje, Marina regresa a la civilización tras ser "rescatada" por unos cazadores, quienes la venden a un burdel. Esclavizada y humillada, consigue escaparse para convertirse en una niña de la calle. Éstas son sus memorias. "Un apasionante relato, bellamente narrado, con algunos momentos maravillosos una verdadera historia de amor y esperanza." Jim Greenhalf, Telegraph & Argus

La increíble historia de una mujer criada por monos

La niña sin nombre

Vanessa James

Lynne Barrett-Lee

Eine Kindheit unter Affen

Das Mädchen, das aus dem Dschungel kam

Una vicenda straordinaria, un evento editoriale internazionale.

La bambina senza nome

Lynne Barrett-lee

The author tells the story of how she was kidnapped at the age of four and abandoned deep in the Colombian rain forest, where she survived for five years by mimicking a troop of monkeys until she was rescued by hunters who sold her to a brothel.

Marina Chapman

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