The Murmur of Bees
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Sofía Segovia
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel--her first to be translated into English--about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can--visions of all that's yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats--both human and those of nature--Simonopio's purpose in Linares will, in time, be divined. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.
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Author
Sofía Segovia
Pages
476
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Published Date
2019
ISBN
1542040493 9781542040495
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I'm currently reading a murder in time"
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Brittany F
"Nana Reja was a wet nurse that saved so many babies after their mothers either died in childbirth or later by the Spanish flu brought by the Mexican Revolution. This book is written in magical realism and I adored it. The words come off the page like lavender. Somehow you are healed by the beauty of Sofia Segovia’s writing. "
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Michelle
"Excellent book so poetic and poignant "
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Jacqueline Taylor
"I thought the language (and translation) was beautiful, and the history was interesting to me, but the book itself was also annoying. There are only three categories of people in this book's world: benevolent put-upon landowners, childlike peons who are so grateful for the landowner's kindness, and evil ungrateful peons who are greedy and hurt people for no reason. Annoying."
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