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Of Bees and Mist : A Novel by Erick Setiawan (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101416596259

ISBN-139781416596257

eBay Product ID (ePID)79800944

Product Key Features

Book TitleOf Bees and Mist : a Novel

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, Horror, Magical Realism, Family Life, Coming of Age

Publication Year2010

GenreFiction

AuthorErick Setiawan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight15.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Of Bees and Mist is sheer enchantment. Erick Setiawan has created a magical world just outside of our own, made all the more human and compelling by its rich and astonishing strangeness."- Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child and Angels of Destruction, "A beautifully crafted adult fairy tale of love, loss and loyalty that is at once witty, magical, and moving. Of Bees and Mist is a stunningly accomplished first novel." - John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things and The Lovers, " Of Bees and Mist is set in a secretive and mythical landscape where readers will yearn to be. A marvel of a novel." - Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain and Brothers, "A beautifully crafted adult fairy tale of love, loss and loyalty that is at once witty, magical, and moving.Of Bees and Mistis a stunningly accomplished first novel."- John Connolly, author ofThe Book of Lost ThingsandThe Lovers, "Of Bees and Mistis set in a secretive and mythical landscape where readers will yearn to be. A marvel of a novel."- Da Chen, author ofColors of the MountainandBrothers, " Of Bees and Mist is set in a secretive and mythical landscape where readers will yearn to be. A marvel of a novel."- Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain and Brothers, "Of Bees and Mistis sheer enchantment. Erick Setiawan has created a magical world just outside of our own, made all the more human and compelling by its rich and astonishing strangeness."- Keith Donohue, author ofThe Stolen ChildandAngels of Destruction, " Of Bees and Mist is sheer enchantment. Erick Setiawan has created a magical world just outside of our own, made all the more human and compelling by its rich and astonishing strangeness." - Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child and Angels of Destruction, "A beautifully crafted adult fairy tale of love, loss and loyalty that is at once witty, magical, and moving. Of Bees and Mist is a stunningly accomplished first novel."- John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things and The Lovers

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisErick 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 broken lives. Raised in a sepulchral house where ghosts dwell in mirrors, Meridia spends her childhood feeling neglected and invisible. 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. At sixteen, desperate to escape, Meridia marries a tenderhearted young man. Little does she suspect that his family is harboring secrets of their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden. There are two sisters groomed from birth to despise each other. And there is Eva, the formidable matriarch whose grievances swarm the air like an army of bees--the wickedest mother-in-law imaginable. 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.