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Grey Bees
Novel by Andrey Kurkov From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Grey Bees (Ukrainian: Сірі бджоли; Russian: Серые пчёлы) 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 in 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]
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