Name: The Witch's Trinity, Paperback/Erika Mailman
Brand: Broadway Books
Price: 102.99 RON
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"A gripping, well-told story of faith and truth." --Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner "A disturbingly effective historical novel." -- Boston Globe "Beautifully written, nary a word out of place, and with a few moments that throw you beyond--the way good books do ... deeply satisfying." -- San Francisco Chronicle A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2007 In 1507, when a severe famine strikes a small town in Germany, a friar arrives from a large city, claiming that the town is under the spell of witches in league with the devil. He brings with him a book called the Malleus Maleficarum--"The Witch's Hammer"--a guide to gaining confessions of witchcraft, and promises to identify the guilty woman who has brought God's anger upon the town, burn her, and restore bounty. G de M ller suffers stark and frightening visions--recently she has seen things that defy explanation. No one in the village know this, and G de herself worries that perhaps her mind has begun to wander--certainly she has outlived all but one of her peers in Tierkinddorf. Yet of one thing she is absolutely certain: She has become an object of scorn and a burden to her son's wife. In these desperate times her daughter-in-law would prefer one less hungry mouth at the family table. As the friar turns his eye on each member of the tiny community, G de dreads what her daughter-in-law might say to win his favor. Then one terrible night G de follows an unearthly voice and the scent of charred meat