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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
- A Year of Keeping Bees
- ナレーター： Mandy Williams
- 再生時間： 7 時間 17 分
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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
批評家のレビュー
“Helen Jukes provides a fascinating glimpse into the secret world of these mysterious creatures upon whose relentless labor human life hinges.” (Lisa Alther, author of Swan Song)
“As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its moving as bees in a hive. I loved it.” (Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk)
“Evocative...affecting.... Readers will appreciate the candor and inviting openness of Jukes’s voice throughout this winning memoir.” (Publishers Weekly)
あらすじ・解説
An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive - a year of living dangerously - watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world.
"As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings as bees in a hive. I loved it." (Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk)
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as the author is entering her 30s and feeling disconnected in her life. Uneasy about her future and struggling to settle into her new house in Oxford with its own small garden, she is brought back to a time of accompanying a friend in London - a beekeeper - on his hive visits. And as a gesture of good fortune for her new life, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good luck, and Helen Jules embarks on a rewarding, perilous journey of becoming a beekeeper.
Jukes writes about what it means to “keep” wild creatures; on how to live alongside beings whose laws and logic are so different from our own.... She delves into the history of beekeeping and writes about discovering the ancient, haunting, sometimes disturbing relationship between keeper and bee, human and wild thing.
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is an audiobook of observation, of the irrepressible wildness of these fascinating creatures, of the ways they seem to evade our categories each time we attempt to define them. Are they wild or domestic? Individual or collective? Is honey an animal product, or is it plant-based? As the author’s colony grows, the questions that have at first compelled her interest begin to fade away, and the inbetweenness, the unsettledness of honeybees call for a different kind of questioning, of consideration.
A subtle yet urgent mediation on uncertainty and hope, on solitude and friendship, on feelings of restlessness and on home; on how we might better know ourselves. An audiobook that shows us how to be alert to the large and small creatures that flit between and among us and that urge us to learn from this vital force so necessary to be continuation of life on planet Earth.