Description - Travels Through Blood and Honey by Elizabeth Gowing
Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and
war. This book reveals another side to the newest country
in the world a land of generous families, strong tastes
and lush landscapes: a land of honey. Elizabeth Gowing is
rushed to Kosovo, on a blind date with the place , when
her partner is suddenly offered the position of adviser
to Prime Minister Agim �eku. Knowing nothing of the
language or politics, she is thrown into a world of
unpronounceable nouns, unfamiliar foods and bewilderingly
hospitable people. On her first birthday in Kosovo she is
given a beehive as a gift, and starts on a beekeeping
apprenticeship with an unknown family; through their
friendship and history she begins to understand her new
home. Her apprenticeship leads her to other beekeepers
too: retired guerrilla fighters, victims of human
trafficking, political activists, a women's beekeeping
group who teach her how to dance, and the Prime Minister
himself. She dons a beekeeper's veil, sees the bees
safely through winter, manages to use a smoker, learns
about wicker skeps, gets stung, harvests her honey and
drizzles it over everything. In between, she starts
working at Pristina s forgotten Ethnological Museum, runs
a project in a restored stone house below the Accursed
Mountains and falls in love with a country she had known
only as a war.
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