King and Patricia

Passing on a reserve in Kenya the narrator meets Patricia who, ten years has a rare power over animals. Bullit, park director and father of Patricia, admire, but his mother Sybil is terrorized: his daughter spends his days in the company of a lion in the bush, King. Collected when he was just a lost cub grew up with Patricia King with whom he has a strange link. Oriunga, a young Maasai warrior, fascinated and seduced by the power that the girl has on the tawny, comes face his lion in a fight to the death ...

"The Lion" is a tragic story of passion footprint. Passion Bullit, former hunter converted to animals in the reserve but also for his daughter, the narrator's passion for this place an Edenic splendor, passion Oriunga, free of any link on the earth of men. But above all passion Patricia "the lion child" for King and vice versa. But in this African world will find that passion, as a presentiment of the narrator, impotent witness of the tragedy, an outcome which is a rite of passage.

A novel of rare beauty, combining gentleness and violence in a beautiful and cruel love story.