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Sin Eater : A Novel

“For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale...a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine...is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment” (The Washington Post).

The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard

Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers

Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard

The Sin Eater Walks Among Us.

For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven.

Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To avenge her death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why.

“Very much reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale…it transcends its historical roots to give us a modern heroine” (Kirkus Reviews). “A novel as strange as it is captivating” (BuzzFeed), The Sin Eater “is a treat for fans of feminist speculative fiction” (Publishers Weekly) and “exactly what historical fiction lovers have unknowingly craved” (New York Journal of Books).


Author:

  • Megan Campisi

Narrator:

  • Shiromi Arserio

Format:

  • Audiobook
  • E-book

Duration:

  • 9 h 0 min
  • 217 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Historic and folklore novels
  • Historic novels

3.9

16 ratings

Malin

2021-03-22

May är föräldralös och i sin kamp för överlevnad stjäl hon en bit bröd, men fångas in och sätts i fängelse. Till skillnad från de andra flickorna döms hon inte till döden, utan till ett liv som Sin Eater - syndätare. Men eftersom de uppätna synderna bärs av Ätaren vill ingen varken se eller röra henne, hon blir en paria. Hon hittar rätt på den befintliga Ätaren, som låter henne bo i huset och följa med på uppdragen. Utan ord från någon av dem börjar May sin upplärning. En dag blir de kallade till slottet och lyssnar på en hovdams syndabekännelse. Ätaren meddelar vilka födoämnen som ska tillagas för de olika synderna, men när det är dags att Äta vägrar hon. På kistan finns ett hjorthjärta, betecknande en synd som inte erkändes. Den gamla syndätaren fängslas och May tar över. När hon märker att den gamla kvinnan torterats till döds och ännu ett hjorthjärta dyker upp börjar May undersöka vad som ligger bakom det hela. *** Boken beskrivs som en blandning mellan "A Handmaid's Tale" och "Alice i Underlandet" - vilket jag inte förstår. 🙃 Det är snarare en deckarhistoria i ett alternativt 1500-tals-London. Visserligen en lite banal deckare om man enbart ser den biten, men den blir väldigt fascinerande med en tonårig utstött flicka (som inte talar) som huvudperson och med syndätardelen som tillägg. Jag hade väldigt svårt att lägga den ifrån mig!

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    Megan Campisi

    Megan Campisi is a playwright, novelist, and teacher. She has been a forest ranger, a sous-chef in Paris, and a physical theater specialist around the world. She attended Yale University and l’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. In 2019 she received a Fulbright Specialist award to travel to Turkey and give master classes at Tatbikat Theater. Her first novel, Sin Eater, received the Debut Crown Award from the Historical Writers’ Association. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Megan lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

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