“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. Read this book, The Bees by Laline Paull, her debut novel, for its originality, for the obvious and extremely interesting research she did on bees and their societal ways, their physical structure and biology and even their sexuality, but not necessarily for its plot and story telling/5(K). The Bees (Laline Paull) Reviewed by Kathryn Allan. I first heard of Laline Paull's The Bees (Harper Collins, ) when I was discussing my research interests in disability studies and science fiction. The person I was speaking with was unfamiliar with disability studies and not a science fiction reader, but they immediately recommended this book to me as one that takes an interest in.
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 review - a fantasy with a sting in its tail. Gwyneth Jones on a debut dystopia set in a beehive, where one bee rebels against the totalitarian state. 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. It's essentially a fantasy work, with a few polemical bits thrown in—is it the bee's knees?
THE BEES is one wild ride. A sensual, visceral mini-epic about timeless rituals and modern environmental disaster. Paull’s heart pounding novel wrenches us into a new world. Emma Donoghue. The Bees is an extraordinary feat of imagination, conjuring the life of a beehive in gripping, passionate and brilliant detail. A tale of family, tribalism, migration, love, sacrifice and survival. THE BEES was my debut novel, an insect thriller that centres on the amazing fact of the laying worker in the honeybee hive. Motherhood is punishable by death, in a world where only the Queen may breed. Laline Paull and 7 other people liked India Rose's review of The Bees: "This is a beautiful and different novel where one is able to escape simple fictions of humanity and where one can embrace a normally unknown life, creating such profound emotions and images that only Flora ’s experiences allow us to dance over the" Read more of this review».
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