Grey Bees
ウクライナのグレーゾーンに取り残された養蜂家が、戦争と宣伝の中で蜂を守りながら移動する物語。
作品情報
戦火の中でも、蜂を守るために動き続ける。
ウクライナのグレーゾーンに取り残された養蜂家が、戦争と宣伝の中で蜂を守りながら移動する物語。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Deep Vellum Pub
- 発売日
- 2022-03-29
- ページ数
- 320ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781646051663
- ISBN-10
- 1646051661
- 価格
- 3563 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Political
2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED FICTION With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict. Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no electricity, under constant threat of bombardment, Sergeyich's one remaining pleasure is his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must take them far from the Grey Zone so they can collect their pollen in peace. This simple mission on their behalf introduces him to combatants and civilians on both sides of the battle lines: loyalists, separatists, Russian occupiers and Crimean Tatars. Wherever he goes, Sergeyich's childlike simplicity and strong moral compass disarm everyone he meets. But could these qualities be manipulated to serve an unworthy cause, spelling disaster for him, his bees and his country?
Born near Leningrad in1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He received “hundreds of rejections” and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin , his first in English translation, became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev , was published in 2014, followed by the novel The Bickford Fuse (MacLehose Press, 2016). He lives in Kiev with his British wife and their three children. Boris Dralyuk is an award-winning translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books . He taught Russian literature for a number of years at UCLA and at the University of St Andrews. He is a co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski) of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry , and has translated Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories , as well as Kurkov’s The Bickford Fuse . In2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly .
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It is a sad fact that we in west have largely forgotten that Putin actually invaded and attempted to annexe large parts of Ukraine 7 years ago, before stepping up his aggression 20 months ago intending to simply take over the whole country. Alexander Kurkov has written a unique and fascinating novel about life in the grey zone of Ukraine (written before the current escalation) that manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, deeply challenging for his main character Sergei, whose life in the grey zone is so grey that he resorts (spoiler alert ) to switching the road signs in his village around one night to amuse himself (he being the only one of 2 inhabitants left in the village). When Sergei decides to take his bees on a spring holiday to warmer and, he believes, safer climes he has no notion of the odyssey that lies before him. I’ve recommended this book now to the 2 book groups I am in and they have both enjoyed it and been challenged by reading it.
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I've been waiting to read this! Boris Drayluk's translation and Andrey Kurkov's imagination. Mind blowing. Read if you are interested in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2014.
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This story is beautifully written and tells the story of a simple good man, a beekeeper who has a passion for his bees. His life has changed drastically in Ukraine because of the war. The neighbourhood has nearly emptied, supplies are minimal, bombs fall, soldiers come knocking , and there is only an irritating old school mate left for company and support.
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Kurkov è bravissimo nel ricreare l'ambiente e i personaggi del regime comunista. Tutto è diverso , tutto è spoglio perfino i sentimenti.
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This is a very strange and captivating book. Strange as nothing much really happens. The reader must guess from seemingly unimportant remarks where the narrator might stand. He lives in a gray zone between Ukraine and Russia. Where does he belong to? To whom can he speak in a village of only 2 inhabitants after the exodus of the villagers, due to the war. The situation is rather spooky. One learns what it means to be living in the gray zone. Strangely, nobody is accused, as if the constant bombing, disturbing the bees, came by no one's fault.
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