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Mr. Fotakis
The landlady runs the English bed and breakfast where Nuri and Afra are staying in the present timeline. She is a kind and thoughtful woman who learns all the refugees’ names and routinely cooks for them. She keeps a beautiful garden on the other side of the fence and always has company over.
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The Landlady Character Timeline in The Beekeeper of Aleppo
The timeline below shows where the character The Landlady appears in The Beekeeper of Aleppo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...Mohammed. He goes into the garden and brings the flightless bee back with him. The landlady brings tea. Nuri observes her attention to cleanliness—despite the bed and breakfast’s general shabbiness— and...
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Chapter 5
...about how unwell he feels, how bereft of dreams he is. Instead, he helps the landlady dust the rooms, noting several personal photos in the Moroccan man’s room. Feeling heavy, Nuri...
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Chapter 7
...silence as she clutches the marble and the sketch pad. Heading downstairs, they find the landlady cleaning. Nuri wonders about her life, how she came to be in Britain. He calls...
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...Lucy Fisher. Nuri goes out to the courtyard and peers through the fence at the landlady’s garden. Mohammed was right when he described it as green; it is full of plants...
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...sound of bees even though he sees none. He finds a single key in the landlady’s garden and takes it back to bed.
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