Alma 1 – Vítr se zvedá - CDmp3 (Čte Igor Bareš)

There is no freedom of the body without freedom of the soul. This holds true both in times of enslavement and in times of coming of age. The year is 1786. In a valley in West Africa, a white horse suddenly appears. The captivated boy Lam rides on its back, and the creature gallops away with him – and thirteen-year-old sister Alma immediately sets off in pursuit of her abducted brother. But the world on the nearby Ivory Coast, washed by the waters of the Atlantic, is despairingly different from the refuge where the siblings have been at home until now. Some are slaves, while others hunt them, sell them, and shamelessly line their pockets. Among the most lucrative catches are members of the tribe from which Alma and her family come. On a slave ship buffeted by ocean winds, a boy named Josef Mars has just pocketed a rare captain's watch, while a certain middle-class young lady from the port of La Rochelle wonders if this life is the best for her... The first part of a new trilogy by the author of the world-famous epics Vango and Tobias Lolness captures the world just before the Great French Revolution, when even his own country participated in the enslavement of another race. In the tapestry of children's fates, which dramatically intertwine and layer, the writer once again pays a poetic tribute to freedom. Not only the one symbolically celebrated by Bartholdi and...