02542cam a2200409 i 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025020003000066035002100096040001300117050001700130082001100147100002700158245003000185264007500215264001200290300002400302336002600326337002800352338002700380520111900407650003101526650002901557650003201586650004801618650004301666650003101709900001101740945005101751945005001802984001701852984001701869999001901886942000601905952011001911952011102021111723920190104140823.0140424s2014 enk er 000 1 eng d a9780007558506 (paperback) a(OCoLC)872700671 aUPZcUPZ 4aPS3616.A953504a813/.61 aPaull, Laline.920549414aThe bees /cLaline Paull. 1aLondon :bFourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,c2014. 4c©2014. a346 pages ;c21 cm. atextbtxt2rdacontent aunmediatedbn2rdamedia avolumebnc2rdacarrier a'The handmaid's tale' meets 'The hunger games' in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. But enemies are everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. And when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will lead to the unthinkable ...Laline Paull's chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. 1aSurvivalxFiction.9287546 0aQueensxFiction.9318882 0aFertilityvFiction.9352020 0aGovernment, Resistance tovFiction.9352021 0aAbnormalities, HumanvFiction.9352022 0aDystopiasvFiction9321607 a596469 8000596469001p30.00tBookssFICTIONlDeer Park 8000596469002p30.00tBookssFICTIONlSunshine 8000596469001 8000596469002 c313366d3133660008 001040708FaDEPbDIYSTAd2014-04-30l11m4n2oPAULpIA0108325r2018-10-07s2018-09-19v30.00yDEFAULT 001040708FaSUNbDIYKELd2014-04-30l16m19n2oPAULpIA0108332r2019-01-09s2019-01-04v30.00yDEFAULT