I love beautiful, and interesting, cover art so every Wednesday I post my 'Cover Attraction' for the week along with a synopsis of the book. Everyone is welcome to stop by and, if they'd like, post a link to their favorite weekly book cover.
My find this week is Little Bee by Chris Cleave. I simply love the colour combination. I always think yellow (or orange) with black makes a wonderful contrast and is very eye-catching even if it is viewed from afar. I also like the simple black outline of a woman, and another smaller white outline of the same being the eye (which I find creative and refreshing). I am also drawn to the cursive writing that seems to flow beautifully so all in all, I love the cover of this book!
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 2009
I could not find a synopsis from the author's site or any on the online bookstores (I have to say the publisher has succeeded in keeping me intrigued!) but I did find something similiar to a blurb from Booklist on Amazon:
Little Bee, smart and stoic, knows two people in England, Andrew and Sarah, journalists she chanced upon on a Nigerian beach after fleeing a massacre in her village, one grisly outbreak in an off-the-radar oil war. After sneaking into England and escaping a rural “immigration removal” center, she arrives at Andrew and Sarah’s London suburb home only to find that the violence that haunts her has also poisoned them. In an unnerving blend of dread, wit, and beauty, Cleave slowly and arrestingly excavates the full extent of the horror that binds Little Bee and Sarah together. A columnist for the Guardian, Cleave earned fame and notoriety when his first book, Incendiary, a tale about a terrorist attack on London, was published on the very day London was bombed in July 2005. His second ensnaring, eviscerating novel charms the reader with ravishing descriptions, sly humor, and the poignant improvisations of Sarah’s Batman-costumed young son, then launches devastating attacks in the form of Little Bee’s elegantly phrased insights into the massive failure of compassion in the world of refugees. Cleave is a nerves-of-steel storyteller of stealthy power, and this is a novel as resplendent and menacing as life itself. ~ Donna Seaman
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