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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
“The Beekeeper of Aleppo”
-Christy Lefteri
The beekeeper of Aleppo – “A story of Resilience and Hope.”
“They are forced to leave their homes; they are traumatized in every sense, they lost their loved ones, they face their dark sides, yet they hold the hope and courage to get over from the hell of the earth and stay alive.”
We read stories about the struggles and pain of refugees here and there in some articles or newspapers. Through this book, Leftri gives us an intimate look at the refugee’s struggles to escape from their homeland to save their lives, their painful journey to a new country, and find a place to stay in a foreign land.
The book follows the story of Nuri and Afra, a refugee couple waiting to get asylum in England. Nuri narrates the whole story in two timelines. He will take the readers deep into his beautiful early life as a beekeeper with his artist wife Afra and son in Aleppo until a conflict escalated into a horrifying and tragic war. The couple lost his son in one bomb explosion, and with that, Afra lost her eyesight. He shares his terrifying experiences of war; a chill ran down on my spine when Nuri shared the execution of young children by the river. After witnessing cruelty, Nuri decided to leave his homeland and share his journey to a foreign land for safety.
“You are lost in the darkness,” Afra to Nuri. The blindness that symbol explains Afra’s void in her heart after losing his son and Nuri’s emotional shutdown after witnessing a lot with open eyes.
Christy symbolizes bees to hope and life throughout the book, and I like this symbolism. When Nuri memorized his Aleppo beekeeping life, he said, “The bees were an ideal society, a small paradise among the chaos.” I realize that these magical little creatures calm him down and give him hope against all the odds every time he thinks about them. Other than this, I feel that the wingless bee at B&B resembles more with Nuri’s character. Broken, yet striving for life in new environment adaptations. The member of B&B came together to save the little wingless bee; the message sent clear by the author that as a community, we all should come forward to help each other, and everyone deserves a second chance.
Coming to the characters, I find Afra’s character emotionally strong. She experienced a lot of traumas from losing his son, her blindness, and rape, yet she endured all the horrific experiences and helped Nuri find his peace.
Nuri is indeed a strong-willed person who witnessed a lot of atrocities yet keeps moving forward each day for the safety of him and Afra. I love how he brings the small gifts for Afra to make her happy in between the chaos. To reach safely in England, Nuri must pay the high cost of his emotional shutdown that messed up with his mental state, and he started hallucinations.
The beekeeper of Aleppo is a vividly haunting, exceptionally well-written book that tells the story of hope and resilience and inspires empathy towards all.
-Christy Lefteri
The beekeeper of Aleppo – “A story of Resilience and Hope.”
“They are forced to leave their homes; they are traumatized in every sense, they lost their loved ones, they face their dark sides, yet they hold the hope and courage to get over from the hell of the earth and stay alive.”
We read stories about the struggles and pain of refugees here and there in some articles or newspapers. Through this book, Leftri gives us an intimate look at the refugee’s struggles to escape from their homeland to save their lives, their painful journey to a new country, and find a place to stay in a foreign land.
The book follows the story of Nuri and Afra, a refugee couple waiting to get asylum in England. Nuri narrates the whole story in two timelines. He will take the readers deep into his beautiful early life as a beekeeper with his artist wife Afra and son in Aleppo until a conflict escalated into a horrifying and tragic war. The couple lost his son in one bomb explosion, and with that, Afra lost her eyesight. He shares his terrifying experiences of war; a chill ran down on my spine when Nuri shared the execution of young children by the river. After witnessing cruelty, Nuri decided to leave his homeland and share his journey to a foreign land for safety.
“You are lost in the darkness,” Afra to Nuri. The blindness that symbol explains Afra’s void in her heart after losing his son and Nuri’s emotional shutdown after witnessing a lot with open eyes.
Christy symbolizes bees to hope and life throughout the book, and I like this symbolism. When Nuri memorized his Aleppo beekeeping life, he said, “The bees were an ideal society, a small paradise among the chaos.” I realize that these magical little creatures calm him down and give him hope against all the odds every time he thinks about them. Other than this, I feel that the wingless bee at B&B resembles more with Nuri’s character. Broken, yet striving for life in new environment adaptations. The member of B&B came together to save the little wingless bee; the message sent clear by the author that as a community, we all should come forward to help each other, and everyone deserves a second chance.
Coming to the characters, I find Afra’s character emotionally strong. She experienced a lot of traumas from losing his son, her blindness, and rape, yet she endured all the horrific experiences and helped Nuri find his peace.
Nuri is indeed a strong-willed person who witnessed a lot of atrocities yet keeps moving forward each day for the safety of him and Afra. I love how he brings the small gifts for Afra to make her happy in between the chaos. To reach safely in England, Nuri must pay the high cost of his emotional shutdown that messed up with his mental state, and he started hallucinations.
The beekeeper of Aleppo is a vividly haunting, exceptionally well-written book that tells the story of hope and resilience and inspires empathy towards all.