Your name is Yuryun Wolan, White Youth. You were born a hero. And what? The usual thing. You are not the first, you are not the last. Your bride is kidnapped by a giant from the Underworld, your sister is kidnapped by the giant's younger brother, and you are offered a wife to the kidnappers' sister—more a monster than a woman. A family saga, says the sighted blind man Saryn-toyon. It is much more dangerous, and most importantly, meaner than any legends about exploits. You will see this the hard way, hero. G. L. Oldie’s new novel “The Strong” invites the reader to the Three Worlds of the heroic tales of the peoples of the North, where behind the revived legends of antiquity rises the ghost of the “theory of time” of Academician Kozyrev, a living legend of our century. “Black Heart” is the second and final book of the novel.