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The Bee Sting

Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel

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The Bee Sting

Von: Paul Murray
Gesprochen von: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, Ciaran O'Brien, Lisa Caruccio Came
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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS


The Barnes family are in trouble.

Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully.
Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone’s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .


'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian

'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' Financial Times

‘Paul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy’ Spectator


©2023 Paul Murray (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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It can't be overstated how purely pleasurable The Bee Sting is to read. Murray's brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, posits the author as Dublin's answer to Jonathan Franzen . . . A 650-page slab of compulsive high-grade entertainment, The Bee Sting oozes pathos while being very funny to boot . . . Murray's observational gifts and A-game phrase-making render almost every page - every line, it sometimes seems - abuzz with fresh and funny insights . . . At its core this is a novel concerned with the ties that bind, secrets and lies, love and loss. They're all here, brought to life with captivating vigour in a first-class performance to cherish
The Bee Sting is the finest novel that Murray has yet written and will surely be one of the books of 2023 . . . It bears comparison to the brilliant comic writer Jonathan Coe... But Murray is his own writer, capable of keeping a multi-faceted and compulsive plot moving along with alacrity and confidence, while seamlessly blending drama, comedy and heartbreak... For 13 years, Paul Murray has been best known as the author of Skippy Dies. That, I suspect, is about to change
Immersive, brilliantly structured, beautifully written, so dense yet so compelling, [and] as laugh-out-loud funny as it is deeply disturbing . . . The Bee Sting is as ambitious as anything that has gone before, but with a focus and shape that grants it great depth as well as breadth. Seriously, all you need is this, your suntan lotion and a few days off work and you're good to go . . . I didn't see the plot twists coming. And they keep on coming, And coming again . . . I began with an ovation. I'll end abruptly, and in awe... Paul Murray, the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy, has done it again
The most enjoyable new novel I came across this year. A sprawling, Franzen-esque saga about the Barnes family in Ireland recovering from the 2008 financial crisis, it’s an amazing piece of realist fiction, full-bodied, multi-narrative; a huge swing by Murray (Bret Easton Ellis)
A triumph. The Bee Sting deserves all the praise I am heaping on it. It is generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life
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None of the characters is particularly likable, everyone seems to be suffering from depression and makes one incomprehensibly bad decision after the next. The novel is well written but too long and frustrating to listen to, as it’s hard to emphasize with the main characters.

Long and depressing

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The first part, where each character tells their POV is a bit too stretched I think, which is not to say their stories aren’t all interesting and captivating in their own way, because they definitely are! The pace picks up in the later part when the POVs switch more and more rapidly and O.M.G that ending is too good!

Bit long but still amazing

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Moving book, brilliant character building. Lots of black humour too but a tragic story nonetheless. That the book paces towards an apocalyptic ending is clear from a certain moment. This tension kept me listening longer to the audiobook than was good for me. I loved it so much that I also bought a paper copy to read.

Brilliant story

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Spannend, gute Charaktere, Geschichte wunderbar erzählt. ich liebe das Buch — konnte gar nicht mehr aufhören. Sehr gute Literatur.

Großartig!

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great speakers and what an amazing story. Very rare that I like everything about a book. This is one.

best audio book for me since a long time

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