La Vida Secreta de las Abejas

Escrito por Sue Monk Kidd

Narrado por Cristina Arsuaga

This New York Times bestseller is now available as a Spanish-language audio book.

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees is the history of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped by her confused memory of her mother's death when Lily was just a small child. This is a notable novel about female power-divine and human-and a story that women will share and pass from mother to daughter for generations.

Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La Vida Secreta De Las Abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Highbridge Company
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 25 jul 2005
• ISBN: 9781598873511

Comentarios para La Vida Secreta de las Abejas

[busymombookclub · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Great book

[kendrarenee · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

It was a good story, it kept me interested. And I love some of her descriptions/turns of phrases--they're truly original, and some of them quite charming. But the whole book didn't really flow; I read in the back that it took her three years to write, and by the way it read, I can believe it. The tone of the book brought the image of chopped vegetables to mind before it did the feeling of smooth and gooey honey. It's not good when I can SEE the author's hand in a story as I'm reading it; a really talented writer will make herself completely invisible to the reader, and she did not.

[caanderson-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This has been on my to-read list for a long time. Loved the story and the characters. The story flows through tragedy, pain, and healing. Excellent book.

[nagtzaam · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Sweet little read.

[chocolatechip_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

a neglected white girl runs away from her cruel father to go searching for clues about her dead mother's past, eventually leading her on a quest for the black madonna where she finds three black sisters who accept her for who she is.

[sharlene_w · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I was disappointed ... I thought there was many lost opportunities to make the book more interesting. The only real interesting thing was the interplay between her life and the life of bees. The characters were not appealing enough for me to feel any empathy for them. There were moments .. the scene with the snuff juice on the shoes, the suicide, the scene with the boys and the police where there was some tension to the plot, giving me some hope of exciting things to come in the book, but ... no. Ho hum...

[wilcoxpat_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Set in the sixties shortly after the passing of the Civil Rights Act, Lily Owens act of bravery leads to the answers she has been seeking since the accidental loss of her mother 10 years earlier. In the care of an abusive father she is also being raised by a very strong and proud black woman. When Rosaleen is jailed for standing up to a group of racists, Lily helps her to escape from the hospital where a wounded Rosaleen is being kept and they escape to Tiburon, a small town that Lily believes her mother was connected to due to a clue in her mothers possessions, Lily finds her answers while in the care of the Boatwright sisters, beekeepers who provide a safe haven and a place to grow. The Secret Life of Bees is an enjoyable and uplifting story.

[annertan · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Love the twist at the end. It was unexpected.

[nicolejr · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I was surprised. I figured it would be ok, a nice beach book, but once I started reading I was hooked, very sweet story.

[26kathryn · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

To be fair, I only read this because it was given to me. It's not a book I would have bought for myself. Although I enjoyed this book, I don't think I would read it again. The story was interesting, but all the references to bees were a bit tedious. Obviously with the story being set on a bee farm there's going to be references to bees, but they kept popping up in metaphors throughout the book when they weren't really needed.I did quite like Lily as a character, I liked how she dealt with the conflicts in her head regarding her parents. The only thing with her is that she seemed much older than she was supposed to be. She's only supposed to be fourteen but the way she talked, thought and acted made me think she was more like 18 or 19. It meant I was quite confused towards the end when they talked about her going back to school.

[anitadrink · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I had seen this book around for YEARS before I read it. I had heard all the hype and read little blurbs about it, but didn't feel compelled to give it a chance. And then I was at the library and it was on a table and I just picked it up with a few other books. And read it. And LOVED it. This book made me CRY. Several times. And I am NOT known for my prolific tear ducts. But it was beautifully written and the story was wonderful and I am SO GLAD that I was wrong about it. LOVED IT!

[simonea_533972 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I am not one of the people who fell in love with this book. The story is nice and the writing style is pleasant, but the characters feel more like caricatures to me. There were bits of the story were I forgot about that though, and I enjoyed those. In the end, this is not a book I want to reread again, but I can see why many people like it.

[wordygirl39 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I loved it and was so surprised when I did. I resisted this book for several years, hating to succomb to the chick-lit. craze happening at the time. I don't think it was original, but some of Kidd's lines are absolutely gorgeous.

[tpausilver · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Was feeling rather ill this week so curled up with this book as something that won't require too much mental work. This is the story of a little white girl at the time when the civil rights act was passed. And it's so hard for this little girl because he loves all these black people and they keep doing things like getting beaten up for asking for their rights, which is very upsetting for her. She also lost her mother when she was young but it's ok because soon a whole host of black women find their places in life playing mammy to the poor little lost white girl. We have such exciting characters as the illiterate back housekeeper, the block motherly figure who played mammy to several generations of little white girls, the black woman with only hate in her heart who doesn't like the white girl and refuses to get married who eventually opens up to love, both for white girl and for suitable male. We have the unstable crazy who can't handle life as a pathological condition and one day just walks out and kills herself. We have the upstart black boy who wants to make something of himself but the man's holding him down and a thrilling side cast of yokel racist white people who threaten to beat up black people regularly and crazy black people who nurture little white girl. So, yeah, not really impressed. I meant, it was nice and fluffy and most of the characters had a thin vener over their racist stereotype so you could ignore them if you needed to, but it's not something I'll read again.

[katie1723 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

For a long time, I hated reading. My Mom is the one to thank for my current addiction to reading. She told me about this book and how much she loved it. I figured I would give reading a try again since High School. This book was amazing. It covered topics you don't hear about on a daily basis. This book will always be a part of my collection.

[ilive2read · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Fantastic story I could not stop reading it. It's a book that you should not read before bedtime because you'll stay up a lot later than you intended. Even as a white male I found my self relating to the small African-American girl at the center of this story. I highly recommend it.

[lepapillonvert · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A coming of age story about a young girl in South Carolina in the 1960's and her experience with loss, pian, love and racism. I read this in the summer of 2007 after visiting my family who had just moved to the area of the USA.

[pilgrimjess · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.” Lily Owens is a fourteen-year-old white teenager growing up in Sylvan, South Carolina abused, and misused by her brutal father, T-Ray, who owns a peach farm. At the age of four, Lily accidentally killed her mother while witnessing an argument between her parents. Lily runs away with her nanny, Rosaleen who was beaten up and the imprisoned by while racists whilst on her way to register to vote.When T. Ray tells her that Rosaleen will probably die at the hands of racists, Lily takes no time to even question saving her. Lily finds a picture owned by her mother with the place name Tilburon written on the back so she and Rosaleen abscond to there in the hope of following in her mother's footsteps. There they are taken in by three black spinster Boatright sisters who keep bees and make their living from selling honey. There she falls for a black teenage boy Zach.Racism is a central element of this book. President Johnson says just passed a law giving blacks the vote for the first time. Lily comes to realize that whites do not think she should live with the Boatrights and certainly would frown on any liaison with a black boy. She also realizes that June, one of the Boatright sisters, is prejudiced against her because of whiteness. However, Zach encourages her to imagine a colour-free world.Throughout her story, Lily feels a deep sense of longing for her mother. She reflects on the and compares herself to her unknown mother imagining her romantically, doing things ideal mothers do. The Boatright home and sisters show her what it is to be part of a community who loves her giving her the courage to stand up to her father.At the end Lily becomes a better person. All her life, she has beaten herself up mentally for her mother's death bitter and angry about her mother's leaving her.In the end, Lily finds a way to forgive both her mother and father when she realises that the mother's death affected T-Ray badly as well. Lily reaches out to him, but he can't see his own way to forgiveness. This is not the sort of book that I would normally read but I found it an enjoyable diversion and not a little thought provoking. There is a real warmth throughout this book and I can imagine it going nicely around at a poolside.

[mana_tominaga_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A beautiful, lyrical novel.

[bibliobibuli_1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I found it a nice, relaxing read to begin with, though thought the humour a little forced. I like the characters, particularly 'The Calendar Sisters' who take Lily in. But the book sags horribly towards the end and I found myself skimming the last third just to get to the end quickly. (As someone said last night "I wanted the Klu Klux Klan and some lynching.") I also found the feminine solidarity theme utterly cloying.This is Hallmark Channel stuff. (Can just see Oprah and Whoopie Goldberg playing leading parts.) It drips honey and niceness and feel-goodness, but never gives us a convincing account of the inner life of its protagonist.I think the book might appeal rather more to teenagers, although a much better read would be Carson Mc Cullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

[tabascofromgudreads · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Terrible. Feels fake all the way through.

[indreamsawake · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Loved this! I was skeptical about this book at first as I thought it was going to be some kind of new age woman power book, but I'm glad I was so wrong. This book covers many interesting topics: women in the sixties, the Civil Rights movement, mother-daughter relationships, death of a parent, child abuse, friendship, sisterhood, and I learned some cool things about bees I never knew. The author was able to cover all these topics by simply telling a story about a girl growing up in the midst of all this.
I fell in love with the Kidd's characters, especially Lily. Her feelings in coming to terms with her mother's life and death was heartbreaking, yet real, not over the top, yet not sugar-coated either.
You know you've read a good book when you feel like you will take a little piece of the characters with you, and I have a feeling I will often think of the Lily and the Boatwright sisters.

[caroren_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Warm, Unforgettable Story - In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler

[ciara96 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The novel,The secret life of bees, by kidd encompasses the life of a young girl with an african american made.In the begging struggles with the mommory of the death of her mother. the pages read are 27/302

[borrows0n0wants · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

A good, light summer read. Somewhat formulaic, but good nonetheless.

[abstracta_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I love the style of writing, it read really easily, with so many beautiful and upsetting moments - giving the reader so much to think about. However, somehow I was disappointed with the ending, but maybe it was just because I didn't want the story to end!

[regan521 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

In The Secret Life of Bees, a young girl named Lily runs away from her abusive father. She goes to find the town her mom used to live in, and she begins to live with a local beekeeper named August Boatwright. She lives in a house with all African American women (August and her sisters), learns how to be a beekeeper, and she gets to see the racial prejudices her friends deal with every day. This book would be great in a social studies or ELA classroom. For instruction, I would use this book to address the civil rights era, and to help students understand forgiveness, just as Lily had to forgive herself and others.

[lara335 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Lily reminded me of an older version of To Kill a Mockingbird's Scout. Praise indeed. Charming and original tale of compassion.

[ifionlyhada · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I really enjoyed this book, but I enjoyed it more after reading "Traveling with Pommegranets". "Traveling" told a lot of the back research done which explained a few of the awesome parts of this book. A great journey.

[ursula_2 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I wasn't that excited about reading this because I'd heard it described as "touching" and "empowering." It was indeed touching, but not in an emotionally false way. There was just enough humor, enough heartbreak, enough tragedy, enough warmth and understanding.