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The Death of a Beekeeper by Gustafsson, Lars is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Death of a Beekeeper about?

The celebrated Swedish author's American debut, The Death of a Beekeeper is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through spring. Told through the journals of this schoolteacher turned apiarist, The Death of a Beekeeper, is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. Westin has refused to surrender the time left him to the impersonation of a hospital, preferring to take his fate upon himself, to continue solitary, reflective life in the Swedish countryside. "I took little walks and noticed that in the last months the pain had actually colored the landscape in a peculiar way. Here and there is a tree where it really hurt, here and there is a fence against whose post I struck my hand in passing." His inner landscape is also re-forming: "This constant concern with an indefinite dangerous secret in one's own body, this feeling that some dramatic change is taking place, without one's being able to have any clarity about what really is... reminds me of prepuberty. I even recognize this gentle feeling of shame again."

Who reads The Death of a Beekeeper?

Author

Gustafsson, Lars

Publisher

Published for J. Laughlin by New Directions Pub. Corp

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811226479

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.91 / 5 (311 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14