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Winter Bees

Norbert Scheuer

In Winter Bees, an intense narration that is as subtle and precise as it is thrilling, Norbert Scheuer conjures a world suspended between destruction and the hope for a peaceful future. Press praise: "The people of Norbert Scheuer do not escape their origins, but each of their stories is worth telling." Patrick Bahners, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "A book full of light sentences that contain all the weight of life: hope, fear, lust." STERN, Oliver Creutz "In 'Winter Bees', [Norbert Scheuer's] art shows its relaxed mastery." Süddeutsche Zeitung, Hubert Winkles

Germany, January 1944: Egidius Arimond, a laid off Latin and history teacher, is in permanent danger. Not just because of his love affairs or his epilepsy, but first and foremost, because of his daring attempts to rescue Jews by smuggling them across the Belgian border concealed in specially prepared beehives. Meanwhile, British and American bombers are circling over the Eifel mountains. Arimond’s situation gets more and more hopeless as he can no longer access medication, begins an affair with the district leader’s wife, and finally, is denounced to the Gestapo.


Further works published by C.H.Beck:

At the Bottom of the Universe (2017)

The Language of Birds (2015)

Arab: Marousha (Egypt)

English World Rights: Haus Publishing

The Rushing of Water (2009)

Turkish: Dedalus 

Serbian: Mono & Manjana

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