Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, he makes a modest living as a beekeeper, as his father and his father's father did before him. Deeply acquainted with the workings of his hives, Albert is less versed in the ways of people, especially his neighbour Claire, whose beauty and vivaciousness transformed his young life. Yet years passed by, feelings were repressed, and chances missed.
Until one day Albert, led by a trail of bees, discovers Claire's body. Through the quiet minutiae of life, he begins to examine the truths that lay hidden under the secrets and silence that hovered between them for so long. With echoes of The Remains of the Day, Telling the Bees is a haunting novel about lies of omission and commission, the persistence of regret, and the sweet anguish of re-opening wounds in order to finally heal them.
- ISBN10 0399159053
- ISBN13 9780399159053
- Publish Date 7 March 2013 (first published 1 March 2013)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 27 August 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English