Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees

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Produktbeschreibung

The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sister, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House Sea
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9780142001745
• ISBN-10: 0142001740
• Artikelnr.: 21499410

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Sue Monk Kidd

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Moving, original, and accomplished ... wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous, and takes a line which is - refreshingly - strongly female without being cliche-feminist. It is also deliciously eccentric, which lifts it out of the usual category of a rite-of-passage novel into the realms of real distinction. Do read it Joanna Trollope