From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing
novel--her first to be translated into English--about a mysterious child
with the power to change a family's history in a country on the verge of
revolution.
From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge,
the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered
in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of
superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by
landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him
as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for
wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child
closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can--visions of all that's
yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective
swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from
threats--both human and those of nature--Simonopio's purpose in Linares
will, in time, be divined.
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating
influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a
country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love,
faith, and future in the unbelievable.
