Kirjahaku

Castle of Whispers is a richly imagined work of fiction from one of France's best-loved authors. In 1187, on the day of her wedding, the beautiful 15-year-old Esclarmonde scandalises the court when she refuses to accept the knight chosen by her father. She vows instead to give herself to God, an act of defiance for which she is imprisoned in a cell. There, she encounters a mystical crossroads where the living and the dead meet, and she begins to exert a mysterious and pervasive power over the kingdom, reaching a saint-like status.

...V seme Fraskity Karasko s nezapamjatnykh vremen ot materi k docheri peredaetsja tainstvennaja shkatulka, i kazhdaja nakhodit v nej svoj osobyj unikalnyj dar. Fraskita nashla tam nitki i igolki, ee dar - shite. Ona ne tolko prevraschaet starye trjapki v prekrasnejshee podvenechnoe plate, no i zanovo mozhet soedinit cheloveka s pokinuvshej ego tenju, vozrodit, sshiv voedino rasterzannogo v klochja bojtsovogo petukha. I kazhdaja iz pjati docherej kogda-nibud poluchit strannyj, prekrasnyj, pugajuschij dar, kotoryj stanet dlja nee i schastem, i gorem. Neudivitelno, chto v derevne Fraskitu schitajut koldunej i storonjatsja, bojatsja ee i vse zhe tjanutsja k nej. No odnazhdy Fraskite vmeste s detmi pridetsja pokinut rodnuju derevnju, chtoby otpravitsja stranstvovat po Ispanii, a potom i za ee predelami, nesja miru chudo i prokljate. "Sshitoe serdtse" - plenitelno krasivaja, jarkaja, izobretatelnaja skazka, v kotoruju pogruzhaeshsja s pervykh zhe strok, i vynyrnut iz nee budet nevozmozhno. Roman Karol Martinez - tot samyj magicheskij realizm, chto sshivaet fantaziju i realnost prochno i bez shvov.