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Lake Union Publishing
May 2019
On Sale: April 23, 2019
ISBN: 1542040507
EAN: 9781542040501
Kindle: B07GNCQXXB
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Historical
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novelβher first to be translated into Englishβabout a mysterious child with the power to change a familyβs 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 canβvisions of all thatβs yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threatsβboth human and those of natureβSimonopioβs 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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