The Fluted Girl

1 hr. 37 min.

Language Russian

Author Paolo Bacigalupi

Narrator Mila Rad

Description

This work delighted, astonished, and even excited me. It is surprising that “The Fluted Girl” did not receive a single award. But among readers it is the most popular, and many of them were upset that Bacigalupi wrote his first novel not in the setting of “The Fluted Girl,” but in the setting of “The Calorie Man” and “Yellow Card Man.”

An indeterminately distant future…
Technology and bioengineering make it possible to work miracles. But in its customs and morals, humanity seems to have returned backward. To a semi-feudal order.
In one of the remote castles, two unhappy sisters live with Lady Belari — Lydia and Nia, two fluted girls. Their fate is to be playthings in their mistress’s hands, but chance may change everything…