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The Bees (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015

Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive.

Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen.

Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. Then she finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous.

Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. But Flora cannot help but break the most sacred law of all, meaning her instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire, as overwhelming as it is forbidden…

Laline Paull’s chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, ‘The Bees’ is the story of a heroine who changes her destiny and her world.

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    353 pagine
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    Inglese
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    Su Kindle Scribe
  4. Editore
    Fourth Estate
  5. Data di pubblicazione
    6 maggio 2014
  6. Dimensioni file
    1426 KB
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‘[A] gripping Cinderella/Arthurian tale with lush Keatsian adjectives’ Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

‘Beautifully written and unusual … Captivating … A brave and original story that highlights our modern environmental crimes, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the intricacies of bee world … Any book that changes the way we see our world surely deserves to be a success’ Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times

‘Ambitious and bold … told with such rapturously attentive imagination … The tale zooms along with such propulsive and addictive prose … Few novels create such a singular reading experience. The buzz you will hear surrounding this book and its astonishing author is utterly deserved’ New York Times

‘One wild ride. A sensual, visceral mini-epic about timeless rituals and modern environmental disaster. Paull's heartpounding novel wrenches us into a new world’ Emma Donoghue

‘This unusual and cunningly imagined thriller hurtles us through the very bizarre life and adventures of Flora 717 … Strangely thought-provoking’ Angus Clarke, The Times

‘A rich, strange book, utterly convincing in its portrayal of the mindset of a bee and a hive. I finished it feeling I knew exactly how bees think and live. This is what sets us humans apart from other animals, that our imagination can allow us to create a complete, believable world so different from our own’ Tracy Chevalier

‘It is the best novel of its kind since “Watership Down”. All the tension of a palace intrigue and the heart of a small, undaunted hero. An astonishing achievement’ Martin Cruz Smith

‘What Laline Paull has accomplished here is multivalent: a rumination on nature; a portrait of the struggle between individual and the stifling matrix of society; and a depiction of how humanity might organize itself along different lines. I’d call it, in the end, science fiction at its best.’ Paul Di Filippo, Locus

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Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive.

Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen.

But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous.

But enemies are everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. And when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will lead to the unthinkable . . .

Laline Paull's chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, 'The Bees' is the story of a heroine who, in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world.

Dettagli prodotto

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GLGZVA6
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate (6 maggio 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 1426 KB
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 353 pagine
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Michelle Arnold
5,0 su 5 stelle Charming and Engaging
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 2 febbraio 2024
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This lovely tale, narrated by a brave, strong and unusual bee kept me engaged from beginning to end. Although a simple story, it made this reader grapple with the hive mind versus individualism and really question the morality of bee keeping.
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Rodrigo
3,0 su 5 stelle Llegó rápido
Recensito in Messico il 7 giugno 2023
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El libro llegó bien, pero la historia no me pareció tan buena.
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G M Parkes
5,0 su 5 stelle Highly recommend this book
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 15 maggio 2024
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Highly recommend this book. Very informative on the life of the hive but it was easy to forget the characters were bees not people. Gripping from beginning to end.
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Fluffynymph
5,0 su 5 stelle All you want to know about bees.
Recensito in Australia il 14 giugno 2020
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This is an extraordinary and wonderful book - one of the most effective I have read. It very cleverly uses narrative form to describe life in a beehive over about a year, from the point of view of one worker bee that finds itself with various jobs. The reader learns in detail all that goes on in a bee colony, and is also made aware of the almost mystical communication that exists among them, including how the queen's happiness is so essential to the well being of the hive. The book gave the reader not only knowledge of how a hive works, but also, importantly, the feeling of how it works. Only narrative form could have done this. (And I thought the personification of the drones as dandies was very clever.) The author must have a very deep understanding of bees.
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Gerard Aldridge
5,0 su 5 stelle Beelieve it to bee the best novel I've read so far in 2014
Recensito in Canada il 23 giugno 2014
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Written with tremendous perspective on the apiary and its bees. The physiological and psychological effect bees have on each other as well as how they are affected by their environment, all written in a fantastical way. Sometimes sad, sometimes exhilarating, a great read from cover to cover, and you don't have to be a beekeeper to enjoy it thoroughly!
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