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Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2009
- Hardcover
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Setiawan's richly atmospheric debut chronicles the passions, betrayals, and complex domestic politics of three generations of women whose emotional lives manifest as supernatural phenomena. In a nameless town in a timeless era, where spirits and spells are an everyday reality, sixteen-year-old Meridia has grown up lonely and neglected in a house literally haunted by the demons of her parents' soured love. When she falls for the charming and boyish Daniel, she sees her first real chance for love and happiness. She moves in with his family, unaware that they are harboring dark secrets of their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden. There are two sisters groomed from birth to despise each other. And there is Eva, the formidable matriarch whose grievances swarm the air in an army of bees.
Seller Inventory # CIN1416596240VG
- Title
- Of Bees and Mist
- Author
- Erick Setiawan
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1416596240
- ISBN 13
- 9781416596240
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Review
Of Bees and Mist is a beautifully crafted adult fairytale of love, loss, and loyalty that is at once witty, magical, and moving. This is a stunningly accomplished first novel. (John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things and The Lovers)
It's rare to read a work of fiction that is so uniquely intoxicating, it becomes necessary to put life on hold while you let it work its magic. What makes Setiawan's achievement even more wonderful is that this is his debut novel...This is a bewitching, achingly romantic fairy tale and a truly epic undertaking - one that addresses some of lifes most universal themes of love, loyalty and betrayal (SHE Magazine)
'It's rare to read a work of fiction that is so uniquely intoxicating, it becomes necessary to put life on hold while you let it work its magic. What makes Setiawan's achievement even more wonderful is that this is his debut novel...This is a bewitching, achingly romantic fairy tale and a truly epic undertaking - one that addresses some of lifes most universal themes of love, loyalty and betrayal' (SHE magazine)
'This debut demands you enter a place full of spirits, ghosts, demons and clairvoyants, where spells and witchcraft prevail.' (Glamour magazine)
This debut demands you enter a place full of spirits, ghosts, demons and clairvoyants, where spells and witchcraft prevail. (Glamour Magazine)
A wildly imaginative beauty also marks Setiawan out as one to watch. (Metro)
'A wildly imaginative beauty also marks Setiawan out as one to watch.' (Metro)
'[Setiawan's] writing [is] so expressive and squeaky clean . . . A really impressive first novel.' (City AM)
[Setiawan's] writing [is] so expressive and squeaky clean . . . A really impressive first novel. (City AM)
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