Mestra

Összefoglaló

From the internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe comes a remarkable new short story <BR><BR>A cursed father, a gifted daughter<BR><BR> Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is gifted a unique ability by Poseidon: metamorphosis into any being she can imagine.<BR><BR> Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is in possession of an unnatural, insatiable hunger.<BR><BR>Devoted Mestra suggests using her new gift to help her father. But if his hunger is bottomless, how much will he take from her? Soon she must decide: will she keep helping her father survive, or finally break free?<BR><BR>A jewel-like tale of human fallibility, Mestra confirms Madeline Miller as our high priestess of mythology.