Review: In Paul Murray’s sprawling new novel 'The Bee Sting,' a well-off family has the rug pulled out from under them
In the middle of his sprawling new novel, “The Bee Sting,” Paul Murray relates the sad tale of Ireland’s native red squirrel. A little over a century ago, the Duke of Buckingham sent a wicker hamper containing a dozen North American gray squirrels to a newly married couple on an Irish country estate.
When the hamper was ceremoniously opened on the lawn, the squirrels dashed into the forest; soon, “like some fable of colonialism,” they were multiplying throughout the island. Gray squirrels carry but are immune to a squirrelpox virus that gives red squirrels lesions around their mouths and makes them unable to eat. So just like that, because of a single wedding present an entire species was pushed to the brink of extinction.
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