Grey Bees

Grey Bees is a 2018 novel by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov.
It was translated by Boris Dralyuk and published in English in 2020 and in 2022, winning the inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National [Book Critics Circle]. It was also translated into French by Paul Lequesne as Les Abeilles grises, which won the 2022 Prix Médicis étranger.
This novel has "elements of both the fable and the epic", and it dramatises the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a beekeeper.
In 2024, the novel was adapted as a feature film by Ukrainian director Dmytro Moysieiev. The film won several awards in Ukraine.