Grey Bees: A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in Ukraine

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Your description of the book is so touching Vishy, it makes us imagine that undesirable situation immediately and the events happening right now only magnify it.

It’s also a useful reminder to those only just awakening to the situation in Ukraine that the war’s not a recent development but an escalation of a conflict that’s blighted the lives of many of its people for years, destroying and displacing deep-rooted communities.A couple of days earlier, the last time he’d gone out to the edge of the garden, the snow-white field had been spotless.

Sergey, like many real-life inhabitants of this frontline area, has barely travelled beyond his village where generations of his family have left their traces, their graves clustered together in the nearby churchyard. But when the intensity of the conflict threatens his bees’ well-being, he decides to travel to Crimea to visit a bee-keeping acquaintance.BECOME A MONTHLY OR ANNUAL RUMPUS MEMBER AND RECEIVE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, EDITORIAL INSIGHTS, MERCH DISCOUNTS, AND MORE! And this sense, which could make him worry terribly at any hour of the day, was focused entirely on one object: his bees. Some bees fly, gather pollen, build honeycombs - live like the proletariat from day to day, from birth to death.

All that remained was to pull the blanket up to his ears and fall asleep until the morning or until the cold woke him. Adott egy merőben neutrális tér, ahol a katonák (az "ukrók" éppúgy, mint a "mieink", vagyis az oroszok) csak távoli, testetlen entitások, akik a fejünk fölött lövik egymást.Szergej nem is viszonyul hozzájuk sehogy sem, így aztán az olvasó se érzi szükségét, hogy az egyik vagy másik pártját fogja.

It's something of an odyssey, with Sergeyich a curiosity for those he encounters as a man from the no-man's land in the Donbas.But now looking at the news, I’m not even sure whether the grey zone is still there or the Russian troops have moved in.