A cemetery for bees : a novel / Alina Dumitrescu ; translated by Katia Grubisic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumitrescu, Alina, author.

Contributor:

Grubisic, Katia, translator.

Standardized Title:

Cimetière des abeilles. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Dumitrescu, Alina--Childhood and youth--Fiction.

Dumitrescu, Alina.

Romanians--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Fiction.

Romanians.

Social conditions.

Romania.

Emigration and immigration--Fiction.

Emigration and immigration.

Romania--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.

Québec--Montréal.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fictional autobiographies.

Autobiographical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

149 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Linda Leith Publishing, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"This autobiographical novel traces the journey of a woman from her youth in Socialist Eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life in Romania is marked by the scarcities of the time and the political games needed to survive, but she is not unhappy. Placed around her family's house are hives-the bees discourage the secret police from visiting too often-and the bees provide both a childish diversion and an overarching metaphor for departure and home. An elegant, candid book, A Cemetery for Bees is an elegy for childhood, a declaration of francophile love, and a complicated look at who we are, who we were, and where we might find ourselves."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Le cimeti�ere des abeilles.

Other Format:

Online version: Dumitrescu, Alina. Cimeti�ere des abeilles. English. Cemetery for bees.

ISBN:

9781773900834

1773900838

OCLC:

1196084980

Publisher Number:

99989756133