![]() ![]() Perhaps it’s the disappearing honeybee, but America has bees on the brain: between The Language of Bees, The Secret Life of Bees, Bee Season, the film adaptations of the latter two novels, and the handful of other movies with apian titles (among them Bee Movie, Akeelah and the Bee), a book named Little Bee risks getting lost in the swarm. For a novel obsessed with the importance of names, it is fitting that Little Bee first appeared in England as The Other Hand. ![]() With a driving plot line and two strong, and very different, female narrators, this book may cause readers to miss their train stops. Little Bee follows Cleave’s bestselling, and prize-winning, 2005 debut, Incendiary. In his latest novel, Little Bee, Chris Cleave employs the same gifts that make him an excellent journalist: a keen eye for the crucial detail and the survivalist instinct to waste nothing, including his own past experience, which ranges from marine navigation to bartending to his West African childhood. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |