A cemetery for bees : a novel /
This autobiographical novel traces the journey of a woman from her youth in Socialist eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life in Romania is marked by the scarcities of the time and the political games needed to survive, but...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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Montreal :
Linda Leith Publishing,
[2021].
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| Summary: | This autobiographical novel traces the journey of a woman from her youth in Socialist eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life in Romania is marked by the scarcities of the time and the political games needed to survive, but she is not unhappy. Placed around her family’s house are hives, the bees discourage the secret police from visiting too often, and the bees provide both a childish diversion and an overarching metaphor for departure and home. An elegant, candid book, A Cemetery for Bees is an elegy for childhood, a declaration of francophile love, and a complicated look at who we are, who we were and where we might find ourselves. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Le cimetière des abeilles. |
| Physical Description: | 149 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781773900834 1773900838 |