[DeepL Translation - needs review] Life is only 30 days. This is the empire of the giant hornet. Maria, a warrior, was born in the late summer in a prosperous empire. For the sake of her young sisters and her "great mother," she never falls in love, never bears a child, and continues to fight with her life on fire. One day, she meets a male bee who tells her of her destiny. A shadow begins to cast over an empire that seemed to last forever. This is the author's new masterpiece.
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hovering on the boundary between fiction and non fiction
This is the life story of a オオスズメバチ, an Asian giant hornet. But really I would say it's a pop science book about hornets masquerading as a novel. The author in the end is more interested in telling you cool facts about hornets than in storytelling specifically -- at one point two hornets have a five page conversation about hornet genetics, complete with explanatory diagrams! The insects are anthropomorphized in the sense that they talk and think and express emotions like fear and love, but their