Blurb:
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an
astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious
child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of
revolution.
From the
day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a
small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of
bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child
kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz
Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows
up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when
the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can—visions
of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his
protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats—both
human and those of nature—Simonopio’s purpose in Linares will, in time, be
divined.
Set
against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of
1918, The Murmur of Bees captures
both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put
their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.
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About the Author:
Sofía Segovia was born in Monterrey, Mexico. She studied
communications at Universidad de Monterrey, thinking mistakenly that she would
be a journalist. But fiction is her first love. A creative writing teacher, she
has also been a ghostwriter and communications director for local political
campaigns and has written several plays for local theater.
Her novels include Noche de huracán (Night of the
Hurricane), El murmullo de las abejas (The Murmur of Bees)--which was called
the literary discovery of the year by Penguin Random House and named Novel of
the Year by iTunes--and Huracán. Sofía likes to travel the world, but she loves
coming home to her husband, three children, two dogs, and cat. She writes her
best surrounded and inspired by their joyous chaos.
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