Pojídačka hříchů - CD mp3 (Čte Jitka Ježková)

No one can curse her. She is the curse! The hot-tempered Henry VIII enforced the reformed faith in England by force, and so during the reign of his daughter – the virgin queen Elizabeth I, known to the people as Bethany – plain superstition still prevails. Fourteen-year-old May Owens feels it in her body and stomach when she is condemned for stealing bread to practice the trade of a sin-eater. This requires her to consume precisely defined foods as a symbolic penance for the souls of the unfortunate who chose to repent before death. The girl occasionally eats decently, but her expulsion to the bottom of English society around 1570 is all the more severe. A semi-literate orphan, branded with the mark S (for "sin"), is worse off than a commoner, yet she remains silent with a stone face and keeps her thoughts to herself. However, once she is secretly forced to consume a deer's heart for the shameful act of a palace maid, the quiet rebel suddenly fights for her life, as this offering signifies the murder of a child from the royal lineage! To uncover more, May must cross boundaries and lurk in places where even the powerful walk on foot... This juicy debut by an American novelist depicts the grim dawn of the modern age, which was unkind to women. And that is precisely why the heroine has nothing to lose. Only to gain: after all, S also signifies freedom.