The History of Bees

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), AS

Originally published in Norwegian in 2015 as Bienes historie by Aschehoug, Oslo

Translation copyright © 2015 by Diane Oatley

Published by arrangement with Aschehoug Forlag

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First Touchstone hardcover edition August 2017

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Interior design by Jill Putorti

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lunde, Maja, author.

Title: The history of bees : a novel / Maja Lunde.

Other titles: Bienes historie. English

Description: New York : Touchstone, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017007430 (print) | LCCN 2017010117 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501161377 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501161384 (tradepaper) | ISBN 9781501161391 (Ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Beekeepers—Fiction. | Bees—Fiction. | Extinction (Biology)—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Sagas.

Classification: LCC PT8952.22.U527 B5413 2017 (print) | LCC PT8952.22.U527 (ebook) | DDC 839.823/8—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007430

ISBN 978-1-5011-6137-7

ISBN 978-1-5011-6139-1 (ebook)