A sensual, visceral mini-epic about timeless rituals and modern environmental disaster. " gripping Cinderella/Arthurian tale with lush Keatsian adjectives."-Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "Told with rapturously attentive imagination.Few novels create such a singular reading experience."-The New York Times Book Review
This is what sets us humans apart-our imagination can.create a complete, believable world so different from our own."-Tracy Chevalier, New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring I finished it feeling I knew.how bees think and live. "This is a rich, strange nvincing in its portrayal of the mind-set of a bee and a hive. Paull's clear fascination with her source material brings humanity and warmth to a depiction of the remarkable social world of bees, which is no small achievement."-Huffington Post The parallels to "1984" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" are numerous but this story is also its own."-Florida Times-Union That is fascinating enough, but Paull deftly wields this information to create an even more elaborately layered culture of beeness.Beautiful."-Washington Post "It quickly became clear that in its basic facts, the novel sticks closely to real-world apian biology and behavior.
Thrilling, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you look at the world outside your window. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society-and lead her to unthinkable deeds. She also finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous.īut when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all-daring to challenge the Queen's fertility-enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect pollen. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and strength are an asset. The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.įlora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion.
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