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Desde muy niña Meridia recuerda impresiones e imágenes de su propio nacimiento, tiene visiones sobre todo a partir de la tarde en que una racha de viento helado y una niebla intensa se apoderan de la casa en la que sus padres, Gabriel y Ravenna, viven sin dirigirse jamás la palabra: consecuencia de una infidelidad. Menos mal que Meridia se hace amiga de Hannah, una chica con mucha vitalidad acostumbrada a frecuentes traslados por la profesión de su padre, vendedor ambulante. Pero cuando Hannah desaparece de pronto como un fantasma, Meridia se encuentra con Daniel en la tienda de una adivina. El flechazo es inmediato. La joven pareja vive en casa de Daniel y sus padres, Elias y Eva, junto ...

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Desde muy niña Meridia recuerda impresiones e imágenes de su propio nacimiento, tiene visiones sobre todo a partir de la tarde en que una racha de viento helado y una niebla intensa se apoderan de la casa en la que sus padres, Gabriel y Ravenna, viven sin dirigirse jamás la palabra: consecuencia de una infidelidad. Menos mal que Meridia se hace amiga de Hannah, una chica con mucha vitalidad acostumbrada a frecuentes traslados por la profesión de su padre, vendedor ambulante. Pero cuando Hannah desaparece de pronto como un fantasma, Meridia se encuentra con Daniel en la tienda de una adivina. El flechazo es inmediato. La joven pareja vive en casa de Daniel y sus padres, Elias y Eva, junto a sus hermanas Permony y Malin. El contraste entre la fría casa de los padres de Meridia y la alegre vivacidad de la casa de Eva y Elias favorece la adaptación de la chica a los mandamientos de Eva. Sin embargo, se queda sobrecogida al descubrir que Patina la anciana criada, agobiada de dolores y tratada con desprecio, es en realidad la madre adoptiva de Eva quien no le perdonó haberse negado a revelarle el nombre de su madre biológica. Por si fuera poco gracias a Malin, hermana de Daniel, Meridia escucha escondida unas ásperas críticas de Eva a su respecto: se da cuenta de la hipocresía de su suegra quien, siempre rodeada de abejas y usando su zumbido de modo hipnótico, quiere someterla totalmente para conservar su poder sobre su hijo. Meridia confronta a Daniel con su madre, constata la debilidad de su marido, se vuelve para casa de sus padres. Pero estando embarazada acepta las disculpas de Daniel y vuelvea vivir con él en una casita para ellos solos. Nace Noah. La pareja intenta afirmar su independencia trabajando los dos juntos en joyería. Ambos pierden a su padre y Meridia acoge a Eva en su casa. Eva intenta meterse siempre más entre ellos tras casar a sus dos hijas: hace lo posible por seducir a su nieto. De nuevo aumenta la tensión en la pareja. Daniel trasnocha. Entonces, tras la muerte de su madre Meridia vuelve a casa de sus padres con su hijo. Daniel se queda tan traumatizado que pierde la vista. Meridia desarrolla su habilidad en joyería, se hace famosa. Hannah ha vuelto: las dos amigas comparten de nuevo su tiempo. Meridia no tiene contactos con su familia política hasta que una noche, Malin se presenta en su casa con un recién nacido: es el hijo de su hermana quien acaba de morir de parto tras descubrir que su marido era un asesino perverso protegido por su madre. El escándalo alcanza a Daniel quien recupera la vista, se separa definitivamente de su madre, implora el perdón de Meridia. Pero ella, inflexible, no quiere volver atrás. A lo largo de los años Eva envejece con demencia, totalmente descuidada. Meridia le proporciona la primera ayuda, avisa a Daniel y le sugiere que en cuanto muera su madre puede volver a reunirse con ella.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9788466641210
  • Publisher: Ediciones B
  • Publication date: 10/7/2009
  • Language: Spanish
  • Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
  • Pages: 459
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Erick Setiawan
Erick Setiawan
Indonesian-born novelist Erick Setiawan is a former software engineer-turned-writer whose first novel, the richly atmospheric fable Of Bees and Mist, was published in 2009.

Biography

Erick Setiawan was born in 1975 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. A quiet, shy child, he was thankfully raised in a family of gifted storytellers, who taught him that while life might have an endless supply of conflict, not all of it translates into a good story. Due to the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in Indonesia, his childhood was often fraught with tension, which prompted him to take comfort in books and in the world of his imagination. To traumatize him further, his parents sent him to Catholic schools, where he learned from an early age to feel guilty about everything and that a grown man in a sash and a swishing robe with a ruler in his hand was in no way maternal.

At age sixteen, he left his family and moved to the United States. He knew three people and barely spoke English, yet was somehow convinced that he could compete with the top students to get into the best colleges. His resolution/delusion pushed him to work hard. The following year, his first choice, Harvard, rejected him, but fortunately Stanford had a lower standard. To this day, he believes that they admitted him by mistake.

In college, he wanted to study English, but his shyness and insecurity about his adopted language prevented him from enrolling in classes that required him to speak. Instead, he chose to major in Psychology and Computer Science, going as far as getting a Master's in the latter. Bafflingly enough, studying about mental disorders and complex algorithms only increased his hunger for literature. Once too often, he shuffled aside his term papers and problem sets to lose himself in a novel.

After graduation, he began his tenure as a software engineer in San Francisco. By the end of the first year, he knew that his heart was not in it. Confronted with the risk of being a corporate burnout at twenty-six, he turned to writing in his spare time. To the exasperation of his bosses, he began coming to work late and taking longer and longer lunch breaks in order to write. Several years, two failed novels, and countless short stories later, he decided to quit his job to finish writing Of Bees and Mist. At the time, he had no book deal and knew no one in publishing, but he pursued his passion with the same stubborn resolution/delusion that had motivated him earlier. He sold Of Bees and Mist four years after he started it.

Good To Know

Some interesting outtakes from our interview with Erick Setiawan:

"I sing Richard Marx at karaoke. Still."

"Before I devoted all my waking hours to finishing Of Bees and Mist, I was a software engineer. In order to write, I would come to work late and leave early, not counting the ungodly long lunch hours I pilfered from my bosses. Yet instead of firing me, they kept promoting me and giving me raises! I remain boggled to this day."

"When I lived in Indonesia, I fought with my parents for two years before they finally let me go to America at age sixteen. For reasons best known to themselves, many people tried their hardest to stop my parents. There was one woman who supposedly graduated from Harvard and who took it upon herself to scare my mother to death. She said that the streets of the U.S.A. were teeming with drug dealers, gangsters, and serial killers—all of which could be easily confirmed by a viewing of Taxi Driver and The Silence of the Lambs. But the worst part of it, she said, were American women. 'They'll weave their many webs around your son and seduce him,' she told my mother. 'Once they have him trapped, they'll suck him dry and leave him broken and overdosed on the street.' I don't know which Harvard she went to, but it sure was a good thing that I didn't listen to her!"

"I consider it both a lifelong pleasure and a non-negotiable necessity to be a reader. I don't understand people who don't—or won't—read, or those who prefer TV to books. And to write is the absolute thrill and privilege for me. Most mornings, I wake up not knowing if I'm Chinese, Indonesian, or American, and it is only through writing that I can create a landscape in which someone like myself would feel at ease and not be branded a foreigner. Books have no borders, no locks, no exclusionary policies. I feel incredibly blessed and grateful to be in this position. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy Of Bees and Mist!"

    1. Hometown:
      San Francisco, CA
    1. Date of Birth:
      February 15, 1975
    2. Place of Birth:
      Jakarta, Indonesia
    1. Education:
      B.A. in Psychology & B.S. in Computer Science, Stanford U., 1998; M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford U., 2000

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