Of Bees and Mist (Kabut Masa Lalu)
by:
Samira (author)
Erick Setiawan (author)
Fransiska M (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789797804664 (9797804666)
Publish date: February 2011
Publisher: Gagas Media
Pages no: 580
Edition language: Indonesian
It started out as something I thought I would enjoy: a fairy tale for adults. As the story progressed, I started to like it less and less. I don't know if it was partly due to the Dutch translation, but it all felt like the use of language was very cliché and something I could've written myself. Som...
What a beautiful way to start October.A book so suffused with magic - not Harry Potter magic but more.... realistic magic - that I can't even properly summarize it. It plays out in your head while you read like an episode of "Pushing Daisies" written by Ray Bradbury. It is like a warm cup of cider...
This is a GREAT book. Echoing what others have said, what an achievement for a first novel. The story and writing style reminded me strongly of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is one of my favorite books. This book employs much of the same ideas of magic realism and chronicles a family, thou...
This book is a bit of a mystery to me. Not in a bad way, but in a very good way. While it is an intriguing story mostly of two women. Meridia who grew up with strange mists and Eva, Meridia's eventual in-law who seems to be able to conjure bees from incessant and nasty speech. However it is mostly M...
In Of Bees and Mist, author Erick Setiawan creates a world where people's emotions physically affect those around them. It is the both sad and hopeful story of Meridia, who grows up in a home where the temperature is literally freezing from the coldness of her parents relationship. She finally escap...