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Winterbienen
“Winter Bees” (title translated by AI)
Norbert Scheuer (born 1951)
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January 1944. Egidius Arimond, a teacher of Latin and history dismissed early from his school, keeps bees in the Eifel, and he is in grave danger: because of his affairs with women, his epilepsy, and above all his daring attempts to smuggle Jews across the border into occupied Belgium in specially prepared beehives, less out of noble motives than to pay for his medication. Meanwhile, British and American bombers circle overhead. Told as his diary from the last years of the war, the story makes him the witness and chronicler of a landscape scarred by bombing and of the destruction of every natural and human order.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 318 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War, Nature (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1944
- First published
- 2019 by C. H. Beck
- Author's age
- 68 when first published
- ISBN
9783406739637 (original)
- More
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