by Maja Lunde · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781471162770
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«The History of Bees» is a novel by Maja Lunde, published by Scribner UK in paperback (337 pages, in English).
The novel interweaves three eras: in 1852, the seed merchant William builds a new kind of beehive in England; in 2007, the beekeeper George tries to keep his business going in the face of industrial agriculture; in 2098, Tao lives in a China without bees and pollinates the trees by hand. Their stories intersect to show the fragility of ecological balance and the weight of family heritage.
It is the first installment in the Klimakvartetten series and won the Bokhandlerprisen award in 2015. The work was originally published in Norwegian as «Bienes historie».
Recommended for book clubs and for those looking for dystopias and fiction about nature and family ties.
Maja Lunde is a Norwegian writer.
