The Voice of Kjertania

27 hrs. 27 min.

Language Russian

Author Yana Lett

Narrators Anastasia Skorik, Alexandra Ursulyak, Grigory Perel, Olga Lerman, Alexander Gavrilin, Liza Yankovskaya, Artem Bystrov

Narrator Anastasia Skorik

Narrator Alexandra Ursulyak

Narrator Grigory Perel

Narrator Olga Lerman

Narrator Alexander Gavrilin

Narrator Liza Yankovskaya

Narrator Artem Bystrov

More than seven centuries ago, Kьertania was covered by the Frost—a phenomenon that became both a punishment and a salvation for the country and its people at the same time. The meat of snitirors, creatures that live among the ice, turned into a foundation of the economy and the main source of prosperity. Only preparators can harvest it—people who alter their own bodies in order to go into the region of eternal cold and return back again. Their craft is honorable, but mortally risky: no preparator is free to decide their own fate, and each is chosen in advance, where duty invariably outweighs personal happiness.

Against the backdrop of this dependence, the paths of hawks and hunters, investigators and seekers of fortune intertwine, as well as the heirs of the ruling house. Their struggle for power turns not only into political conflict, but also into a clash with forces that hold Kьertanians in their grip no weaker than the mysterious ice.

“Preparatori. The Voice of Kьertania” is the third and most ambitious part of the trilogy. The secrets of the Frost and private tragedies, palace intrigues and roads into uncharted lands, the longing for freedom and difficult decisions—all of it converges at one point by the end to determine what the future of Kьertania will be, and the fate of those whose destinies are inseparable from it. This is a story about the cost of choice and freedom, about the might of powers that press down on a person, and about the inner duality that lives in everyone.

Yana Lett is a Russian writer, a laureate of the All-Russian literary prize “New Science Fiction” (2018). She has been repeatedly nominated for the A. and B. Strugatsky, V. Krapivin, “New Horizons,” and other awards.

1. The Preparators. Call of the Hawk (narrated by Ivan Chaban, Chumantyeva Irina) 1. The Hawk's Call (narrated by Anastasia Skorik, Alexander Gavrilin, Anastasia Shumilkina, Liza Yankovskaya, Artem Bystrov) 2. Heart of the Frost (narrated by Anastasia Skorik, Alexander Gavrilin, Leon Avtaev, Liza Yankovskaya, Artem Bystrov) 3. The Voice of Kjertania