كتاب
The bees
| العنوان: | The bees |
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| المؤلفون: | Paull, Laline, author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| وصف مادي: | 346 p. ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Suspense fiction., Queens -- Fiction., Survival -- Fiction., Fertility -- Fiction., Abnormalities, Human -- Fiction., Government, Resistance to -- Fiction., Dystopias -- Fiction., Fiction. |
| الوصف: | 'The Handmaid's Tale' meets 'Watership Down' in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. Then she finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. But Flora cannot help but break the most sacred law of all, and her instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire, as overwhelming as it is forbidden ... Laline Paull's chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, 'The Bees' is the story of a heroine who changes her destiny and her world. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn872700671 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-00-755772-1 0-00-755772-8 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014051723.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780007557721 0007557728 |
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