Little Bee, Chris Cleave
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
14 Rating(s)
List: $25.99 | Sale: $18.20
Club: $12.99

Little Bee

Author: Chris Cleave

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2016


Synopsis

Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey​ puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis​.

“Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post

The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller, book club favorite, and “affecting story of human triumph” (The New York Times Book Review) from Chris Cleave, author of Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven.

We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.

About Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave is the author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven, Gold, Incendiary, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Little Bee. He lives with his wife and three children in London, England. Visit him at ChrisCleave.com or on Twitter @ChrisCleave.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on September 30, 2008

I would have ranked this higher, were it not for the ridiculous hype on the jacket and the annoying Editor's letter at the front; all of which tell me that is book will change my life, that it's a masterpiece. This book stands on its own without needing it. I also pretty fundamentally disagreed with......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on February 05, 2011

Chris Cleave's ability to float effortlessly between two distinct ethnic voices (Little Bee, a refugee from Nigeria, and Sarah, a young widow in England) as their stories spin out and around and through one another was nearly mystical. Years before this book opens, the lives of Sarah and Little Bee v......more

Goodreads review by Baba on December 09, 2023

Although almost fantasy like at times with the plot directions and some of the supporting cast, Cleave paints a bleak (true?) view of the British immigration system and an even better critique of how we in the West could be at the root of some of the violence in the Developing World through secondar......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on June 09, 2010

I generally pass on books written by a man in the voice of a woman. And a white man writing in a black woman's voice? No, thanks. But this book gives nothing away up front, and I was hooked before I could worry much about the writer's intentions. The chapters alternate between Little Bee, a Nigerian......more

Goodreads review by karen on June 21, 2020

i can't say anything about the plot of this book because the dust jacket pleads with me not to and i am nothing if not obedient. (but you can read plot points in all the other reviews by rebels) i will say i loved it enough to order in and set aside his earlier book, which had never called out to me......more