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Segovia Sofia - The Murmur Of Bees - Paperback
Segovia Sofia - The Murmur Of Bees - Paperback
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Description: From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel her first to be translated into English about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's 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 can visions of all that's yet to come both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats both human and those of nature Simonopio's 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.
Title: The Murmur Of Bees
Author(s): Segovia Sofia
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781542040501
Pages: 476 Pages
Publication Date: 4/16/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel her first to be translated into English about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's 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 can visions of all that's yet to come both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats both human and those of nature Simonopio's 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.
Title: The Murmur Of Bees
Author(s): Segovia Sofia
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781542040501
Pages: 476 Pages
Publication Date: 4/16/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
