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The blood of angels / Johanna Sinisalo ; translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers.
Van Pelt Library PH355.S5445 E5513 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinisalo, Johanna, 1958- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Enkelten verta. English
- Language:
- English
- Finnish
- Subjects (All):
- Bees--Fiction.
- Bees.
- Environmental disasters--Fiction.
- Environmental disasters.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- English language edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Peter Owen, [2014].
- Summary:
- "It is claimed Albert Einstein said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left. When bee-vanishings of unprecedented scale hit the United States, Orvo, a Finnish beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And when he sees the queen dead in his hives one day, it's clear the epidemic has spread to Europe, and the world is coming to an end. Orvo's special knowledge of bees just may enable him to glimpse a solution to catastrophe: he takes a desperate step onto a path where only he and the bees know the way but it propels him into conflict with his estranged, but much-loved son, a committed animal activist. A magical plunge into the myth of death and immortality, this is a tale of human blindness in the face of devastation-and the inevitable"--Amazon.com.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Finnish.
- "Winner, English Pen award"--Cover.
- "It is claimed Albert Einstein said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left. When bee-vanishings of unprecedented scale hit the United States, Orvo, a Finnish beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And when he sees the queen dead in his hives one day, it's clear the epidemic has spread to Europe, and the world is coming to an end. Orvo's special knowledge of bees just may enable him to glimpse a solution to catastrophe: he takes a desperate step onto a path where only he and the bees know the way but it propels him into conflict with his estranged, but much-loved son, a committed animal activist. A magical plunge into the myth of death and immortality, this is a tale of human blindness in the face of devastation-and the inevitable"--Amazon.com.
- ISBN:
- 9780720610048
- 0720610044
- OCLC:
- 852806553
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