Grey Bees

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Grey Bees
Ukrainian Cover
AuthorAndrey Kurkov
Original titleСерые пчелы
TranslatorBoris Dralyuk
CountryUkraine
LanguageRussian
PublisherMacLehose Press (UK)
Publication date
2018
Published in English
May 14, 2020
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages304
ISBN978-0857059345

Grey Bees is a novel by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Originally published in 2018, it translated by Boris Dralyuk and published in English in 2020 (by MacLehose Press, UK) and 2022 (by Deep Vellum, USA), winning the inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle.[1] It was also translated into French by Paul Lequesne as Les abeilles grises, which won the 2022 Prix Médicis étranger.[2]

This novel has "elements of both the fable and the epic",[3] and it dramatises the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a beekeeper.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners".
  2. ^ Lépine, Elise (8 November 2022). "Prix Médicis étranger – Andreï Kourkov récompensé pour Les Abeilles grises". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  3. ^ Blacker, Uilleam (5 February 2021). "Apiculture". TLS. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  4. ^ Grey Bees. Hachette. 11 May 2020. ISBN 9780857059369.

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