Zelená míle - 2 CD (Čte Vladislav Beneš)

About mice, men, and magic between heaven and earth. Block E of the Southern prison Cold Mountain, which the former chief warden and now bullied nursing home resident Paul Edgecombe recalls in his old age, used to be a grim waiting room for death. Even in the autumn of 1932, the inmates dreaded the day when the guards would lead them down the green linoleum to the room with the electric chair. A new addition to the outcasts in the cells is the simple-minded black man John Coffey, sentenced for the rape and murder of two white girls – but something has been off from the start. First, his healing hands relieve Paul of his lingering health issues, and then he revives a mouse that a nearby inmate kept for amusement, which enrages the unscrupulous guard Wetmore, who is ripe for a serious mess. Can the divine simpleton Coffey, who can take away others' pain while himself suffering for someone else's crime, handle him? The parable of mice, men, and supernatural phenomena is one of King's most impressive novels. It reflects not only on the inhumanity of the death penalty, which can easily turn into judicial murder in the blindness of prosecutors, but also on the burden that a person is condemned to bear in the pursuit of earthly justice. The novel was adapted into a film in 1999 by director Frank Darabont with Tom...