The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri

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Résumé :
A beekeeper and his wife, an artist, live in Aleppo, but are driven out by the escalating conflict, heading out for Yorkshire where a cousin is teaching refugees beekeeping, but with a long journey ahead. A compassionate and revealing novel of the contemporary refugee experience.

Biographie:

Brought up in London, Christy Lefteri is the child of Cypriot refugees. She is a lecturer in creative writing at Brunel University. Her novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, is an international bestseller, selling well over a million copies worldwide and published in over 40 countries... The Beekeeper of Aleppo won The Aspen Literary Prize (for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture). It was the runner up for The Dayton Literary Prize and won the Prix de l'Union Interalli?e for Best Foreign novel in France. Songbirds is her bestselling second novel.