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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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
"One of my favorite reads to date. Beautiful character driven writing! "
Bonnie Lloyd
"Sofia Segovia is an amazing story teller. I absolutely loved this book!"
Maite Dominguez
"This book is very relevant for the times we are living in right this minute. I believe it was my best read in 2020. #spanishflu #pandemic "
Wendy H-D
"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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"Slow starting, but a gorgeous, immersing story. I very truly did not want it to end."
Diane Coury
"I finished this book today. I had to keep drying the screen of my Kindle as the tears were flowing like a wide opened spigot. This author's writing brought me to tears and brought smiles and laughter as well. Historical fiction, especially from other nations, brings knowledge of a time long passed and new perspectives to view the past by. I highly recommend this book and will be looking for more by this author."
"It was just a beautiful book. The writing itself was fairly straightforward but it still had a beauty of expression to it that put me in a different place while I was reading it. I always struggle to know whether the credit for that goes to the writer or the translator, but in any case, they both did an excellent job. There is a mythical element to the book but it is inextricably embedded in the realities of daily life and deeply loving family relationships. The only reason this didn’t get five stars from me is that I lost a little bit of steam on it in the last quarter of the book, but I can also understand why the author made the choices she did."
Sandra Hasenauer
