· Laline Paull’s ambitious and bold first novel, “The Bees,” follows Flora , a sanitation worker doomed by her birth to the lowest caste of her community. She is large and ugly and — oh Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Synopsis. Reviews. A thriller set in a bee-hive, based on real honeybee biology. Class, caste, and mother love, in a society forty thousand years old. Translated into 16 languages to date. Flora is a worker bee born into the lowest caste of her totalitarian hive society. Though prepared to sacrifice everything for the Queen and work herself to death, she is a survivor who escapes internal . The Bees. by. Laline Paull (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 35, ratings · 5, reviews. The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive/5.
Not so for screenwriter Laline Paull, whose ambitious first novel, The Bees, doesn't feature a single human character—and it's set in the labyrinthine world of the hive. There, worker bee Flora discovers she's also able to lay eggs, a one in 10, anomaly that draws the notice of the queen as well as some unseen complications. "The Bees" by Laline Paull is a fascinating look into the most industrious of natural orders, a beehive. However, with a dash of creative storytelling, she magnifies the society into a dystopian nightmare. The main character is Flora , who is born into the lowest caste of bees, the sanitation workers. It's forbidden for a worker bee to lay eggs. And while the consequences may break Flora's heart, it doesn't break her spirit. An illustration of bee casts from The Bees by Naline Paull. This novel is science. Paull constructs Flora 's world based on the real world of the honeybee. It's captivating and believable.
The Bees by Laline Paull. Buzz off. Here’s an interesting dystopian tale from Laline Paull’s take is to set her world in a beehive, where Flora is a working class sanitation bumble bee. Paull is an English writer and this was her debut novel. Synopsis. Reviews. A thriller set in a bee-hive, based on real honeybee biology. Class, caste, and mother love, in a society forty thousand years old. Translated into 16 languages to date. Flora is a worker bee born into the lowest caste of her totalitarian hive society. Though prepared to sacrifice everything for the Queen and work herself to death, she is a survivor who escapes internal massacres, religious purges, and can even successfully confront a huge marauding wasp. The Bees. by. Laline Paull (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 35, ratings · 5, reviews. The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive.
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