In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, new parties were canvassing throughout the nation. When he showed the captive bug to his community, one man named Douda said he had seen the creature before.Ī few months prior, an electoral caravan visited Nawa. Eventually he interrupted the attack, and captured one of the hornets. Sidi watched, astounded, as the violent hornets again attacked his bees. Shortly thereafter, a giant hornet-looking insect scouted the hives, spread its pheromones over the hives, and soon returned with 19 other hornets. One afternoon, he sensed a change in his bees' demeanor. In the days following, he studied the hives religiously, desperate to see if the predator might return. When he questioned the villagers, they had nothing to report. Then one day, Sidi woke to discover that thousands of his bees had been massacred by a mysterious predator.
He even began calling them his girls, devoting his life to their care. Though he sometimes visited the village center, he was comfortable in the company of his bees. Over the years, Sidi grew comfortable in his new isolated reality. Disgusted by his leader's corruption and wastefulness, he fled the farm and moved to the outskirts of a secluded North African village called Nawa. Through a slit in the tent, Sidi is horrified to witness naked women dancing in his honey.
One day, when the court visited the farm, Sidi spied on the prince and his men. During his employment, Sidi wondered why the court required so much honey. He received a position as the beekeeper for a farm in the middle of the Arabian desert. Though the narrative structure employs temporal inventiveness, the following summary follows a primarily linear progression.Īs a young man in search of work, Sidi answered an ad for able-bodied male workers. Yamen Manai's parabolic novel, The Ardent Swarm, is a third person narrative following the lives of the Nawa villagers in the wake of the Arab Spring. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Manai, Yamen.
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