description: Gail Anderson-Dargatz's evocative novel of one woman's simple but passionately lived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact and simple, natural things. Raised by her silent but companionable father and a mother who kept bees, headstrong Augusta marries shy, deferential Karl, twelve years her senior, and goes to live with him on his father's remote farm. Terrified that she will literally die from loneliness and isolation, she finds work in town, and for a short time, fulfillment with another man in a romance that will reverberate throughout her life. Not until many years later does she find her salvation in beekeeping, the practice she first learned from her mother. It is beekeeping that reconnects her to the world and at long last brings fire to her steadfast marriage.
language: German
title: A Recipe for Bees
titlecomplete: A Recipe for Bees
genres: Drama, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels, Marriage, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 4130
places: Canada
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize
publisher: Harmony