New audiobook: The Voice of the Land, Vrtanes Papazyan

"The Voice of the Land" follows Mko, a Turkish-Armenian migrant laborer, toiling in the suffocating manganese dust of a foreign port to pay off debts ։ During a break, he escapes into a vivid daydream of his idyllic village in Mush, filled with lush nature and his loving family, but the dream is shattered by memories of oppression by tax collectors and Kurds ։ He concludes that suffering in exile is meaningless, and it is better to return and endure hardship on his own soil, whose "voice" is constantly calling him home.