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the long version

'Poison and Honey' is a busy novella that focuses on a house, sometimes known as the House of the Twelve Angels and its family, the Osorins. It covers their lives, ambitions and also the events leading to a murder. The narrator, Semyon Semyonovich, becomes part of the extended family when his Grandfather brings him to the Osorin house as a small child. Through this narrator, Buida creates a packed story full of the realistic, mythical and metaphysical that is strangely enjoyable and full of suspense.