Aura: Aggregation. Region: Amazon — Colombia / Brazil. Sign: yang.
Datura, newly arrived from Uzbekistan at the age of twelve, is taken in by a nomadic Uitoto tribe in the Amazon and trained by the naturalist Amaru, while guerrillas, paramilitaries and extractive companies fight over the jungle.
Aggregation as foundation: listening to the forest before speaking to it, asking permission before taking. The founding contrast on which the next seven books are built.
collective versus singular — In tension with: Materialism.