Of Bees and Mist: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416596259 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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New favorite novel! lorelei I absolutely LOVED this novel. Somewhere between a fairytale world and this one; it's not too restricted by the real world and isn't too far away to be able to relate. Reality is malleable in this world, so this isn't a great book for mindless reading. You'd get lost pretty quick. But the writing is excellent, the characters . Elizabeth K said Enchanting. Readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Murakami will enjoy this book. A lovely debut full of imagery. I'll be on the lookout for his next novel.. Gillespie said One of my favorite books of all time.. This is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it several times. I keep waiting for the author to write another.
While filled with fortune-tellers, ghosts and unexplained phenomena, the relationships between the various characters are true to life so that fans of fantasy and fiction lovers alike are sure to enjoy this magical tale. . From Publishers Weekly Setiawan's debut novel spans 30 years in this heartfelt magical-realist story of two rival families living in a mystical world that transcends both time and place. They marry and move in with his family and at first Meridia loves her life in Daniel's home. Meridia is a lonely child; a mysterious incident when she was an infant has torn apart her parents, leaving them sharing nothing but a cold, mist-filled home. All rights reserved
Erick Setiawan takes Meridia on a tumultuous ride of hope and heartbreak as she struggles to keep her young family together and discovers long-kept secrets about her own past as well as the shocking truths about her husband's family.. Every evening her father vanishes inside a blue mist without so much as an explanation, and her mother spends her days beheading cauliflowers in the kitchen. And there is Eva, the formidable matriarch whose grievances swarm the air like an army of bees—the wickedest mother-in-law imaginable. Little does she suspect that his family is harboring secrets of their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden. At sixteen, desperate to escape, Meridia marries a tenderhearted young man. Erick Setiawan's richly atmospheric debut is a beautiful, engrossing fable of three generations of women in two families; their destructive jealousies, their loves and losses, their sacrifices and deeply rooted deceptions, and their triumphs.Of Bees and Mist is a fable of one woman's determination to overcome the haunting magic that is created by the people she loves and the oppressive secrets behind their bro