The Death of a Beekeeper - Hardcover
In this novel, a schoolteacher turned apiarist learns at the begining of the winter thaw that he has cancer and will not live through the spring. Told through his journals, this is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.
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"This thoughtful and beautifully written novel... We cannot fail to be moved" (Diana Hinds Independent)
"Has all the lyric intensity we have come to associate with Scandinavian films...It is full of spirit, observation, insight, sadness, struggle, pain and, inevitably, of hope" (Frieda McGreal Yorkshire Post)
"Sensitive and vivid" (Wendy Jennings Church Times)
"The landscape of pain has never been defined more graphically... A disturbing, moving and thought-provoking novel that stays in the mind long after it is read" (Jewish News)
"It is brilliant: an evocative book of exquisite beauty and exceptional wisdom... Hope is the theme of the novel, and it is explored sensitively, intelligently and philosophically by an author who knows the impact of simple, precise language... Art can change the way we see the world and Gustafsson is a fine, fine artist" (Ken Spillman West Australian)
"A beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse" (New Yorker)
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"Has all the lyric intensity we have come to associate with Scandinavian films...It is full of spirit, observation, insight, sadness, struggle, pain and, inevitably, of hope" (Frieda McGreal Yorkshire Post)
"Sensitive and vivid" (Wendy Jennings Church Times)
"The landscape of pain has never been defined more graphically... A disturbing, moving and thought-provoking novel that stays in the mind long after it is read" (Jewish News)
"It is brilliant: an evocative book of exquisite beauty and exceptional wisdom... Hope is the theme of the novel, and it is explored sensitively, intelligently and philosophically by an author who knows the impact of simple, precise language... Art can change the way we see the world and Gustafsson is a fine, fine artist" (Ken Spillman West Australian)
"A beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse" (New Yorker)
‘A beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse’ – New Yorker
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0002710943
- ISBN 13 9780002710947
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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