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The award-winning speculative debut novel, now in English for
the first time
In the far north of the Scandinavian Union, now occupied by the
power state of New Qian, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio studies to
become a tea master like her father. It is a position that holds
great responsibility and a dangerous secret. Tea masters alone know
the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring
that once provided water for her whole village. When Noria's father
dies, the secret of the spring reaches the new military commander .
. . and the power of the army is vast indeed. But the precious
water reserve is not the only forbidden knowledge Noria possesses,
and resistance is a fine line.
Threatened with imprisonment, and with her life at stake, Noria
must make an excruciating, dangerous choice between knowledge and
freedom.
With the lyricism of Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO, and the world
building brilliance of Atwood, Emmi Itaranta's effortless and
poignant debut novel is a coming of age story full of emotional
drama and wonderment. Some secrets demand betrayal. 'You're
seventeen, and of age now, and therefore old enough to understand
what I'm going to tell you,' my father said. 'This place doesn't
exist.' 'I'll remember,' I told him, but didn't realise until later
what kind of promise I had made. When Noria Kaitio reaches her
seventeenth birthday, she is entrusted with the secret of a
freshwater spring hidden deep within the caves near her small rural
village. Its preservation has been the responsibility of her family
for generations. Apprenticed to her father, one of the last true
tea masters, when Noria takes possession of the knowledge, she
become much more than the guardian of ancestral treasure; soon, she
will hold the fate of everyone she loves in her hands.
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The Weaver (Paperback)
Emmi Itaranta
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R487
R428
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'Where itaranta shines is in her understated but compelling
characters' Red star review (for MEMORY OF WATER), Publishers
Weekly. Emmi Itaranta's prose combines the lyricism of Ishiguro's
NEVER LET ME GO. This is her second novel, following the
award-winning MEMORY OF WATER. The tapestry of life may be more
fragile than it seems: pull one thread, and all will unravel. In
the City of Woven Streets, human life has little value. You
practice a craft to keep you alive, or you are an outcast, unwanted
and tainted. Eliana is a young weaver in the House of Webs, but
secretly knows she doesn't really belong there. She is hiding a
shameful birth defect that would, if anyone knew about it, land her
in the House of the Tainted, a prison for those whose very
existence is considered a curse. When an unknown woman with her
tongue cut off and Eliana's name tattooed on her skin arrives at
the House of Webs, Eliana discovers an invisible network of power
behind the city's facade. All the while, the sea is clawing the
shores and the streets are slowly drowning.
"The Moonday Letters is a thing entirely its own, full of
melancholy, a sense of wonder and hope." Hannu Rajaniemi An
effortlessly rich and lyrical mystery wrapped in a love story that
bends space, time, myth and science, perfect for fans of Octavia
Butler and Emily St. John Mandel. An effortlessly rich and lyrical
mystery wrapped in a love story that bends space, time, myth and
science, perfect for fans of Octavia Butler and Emily St. John
Mandel. Sol has disappeared. Their Earth-born wife Lumi sets out to
find them but it is no simple feat: each clue uncovers another
enigma. Their disappearance leads back to underground environmental
groups and a web of mystery that spans the space between the
planets themselves. Told through letters and extracts, the course
of Lumi's journey takes her not only from the affluent colonies of
Mars to the devastated remnants of Earth, but into the hidden
depths of Sol's past and the long-forgotten secrets of her own.
Part space-age epistolary, part eco-thriller, and a love story
between two individuals from very different worlds.
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Water Is... (Paperback)
Nina Munteanu; Foreword by Emmi Itaranta; Cover design or artwork by Costi Gurgu
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R964
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