The release date for the English version of 'The Murmur of Bees' by
Sofía Segovia is Apr 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An incredible tale about a strange youngster who has the ability to alter a family's history in a nation on the cusp of revolution comes from a captivating voice in Mexican literature. This is the author's first book to be translated into English.
The lives of the people of a tiny Mexican village were permanently altered on the day when elderly Nana Reja discovered a newborn left under a bridge. Little Simonopio, deformed and coated in a layer of bees, is the subject of superstitions for some of the townspeople, who believe that he was kissed by the devil. However, Francisco and Beatriz Morales, landowners, greet him and take care of him as if he were their own. As he gets older, Simonopio begins to amaze the Morales family because, when the extraordinarily talented youngster shuts his eyes, he sees glimpses of all that's yet to come—visions that are both beautiful and deadly. Time will eventually reveal Simonopio's mission in Linares, as he lives to guard his adopted family from dangers posed by both humans and the natural world, escorted by his beehive of protection.
The Murmur of Bees, which is set against the background of the Mexican Revolution and the terrible 1918 influenza pandemic, portrays the fate of a nation in transition as well as the destiny of a family that has placed its love, hope, and future in the improbable.