Maja Lunde - A bees history

England, 1852: William, the biologist and seed dealer, has been bedridden for weeks. He feels that he has failed as a researcher, his mentor has turned away from him, and his shop is empty. Then he remembers something that might change everything...

Ohio, USA, 2007: George the beekeeper is fighting hard: he wants the farm to expand and his son Tom to take it over from him one day. Tom, on the other hand, dreams of journalism. Until a day happens that no one believes...

China, 2098: Tao, the worker, works to pollinate trees by hand, as bees have long since disappeared from the earth. Tao has every desire to create a better life for his son Vej-Ven. However, when his son suffers a mysterious accident, everything is in danger at the same time...

Everything is connected to everything. Maja Lunde tells a moving story about loss and hope, struggle, failure and victory, as well as the invisible bond between humans and bees, on which the survival of our species may depend. The twisty novel asks some of the most pressing questions of our time: how do we treat the Earth and its creatures? What kind of future are we leaving for our children? What are we willing to fight for?

Maja Lunde was born in Oslo in 1975 and is known as a screenwriter and author of children's and youth books. The story of the bees is his first novel for adults, which immediately became an incredible success at home and abroad. It won the Booksellers Award in its home country, has been translated into 32 languages, and became the best-selling book in Germany in 2017 with more than 350,000 copies sold.