'Where itaranta shines is in her understated but compelling characters' Red star review (for MEMORY OF WATER), Publishers Weekly.'Where itaranta shines is in her understated but compelling characters' Red star review (for MEMORY OF WATER), Publishers Weekly.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.PRAISE FOR MEMORY OF WATER:‘(A) poetic and melancholy debut’Guardian‘Itäranta’s lyrical style makes this dystopian tale a beautiful exploration of environmental ethics and the power of ritual’ Washington Post‘Gorgeous and delicate’ Library Journal, starred review.‘Itäranta’s steady piling on of pressure on her protagonist grips, even as her prose soothes’ SFX'Where Itäranta shines is in her understated but compelling characters' Red Star Review, Publishers Weekly‘Gorgeous and delicate’ Library Journal, Starred Review.‘Brilliant, lyrical prose’ Tor.comEmmi Itäranta holds two MA degrees, one in Drama and another in Creative Writing. Her award-winning debut novel MEMORY OF WATER (Teemestarin kirja) was published in Finland in 2012. She writes fiction in Finnish and English, and lives in Canterbury, United Kingdom. www.emmiitaranta.com• Itäranta writes in both Finnish and English• Emmi Itäranta is an award-winning writer from Finland• AWARDS FOR MEMORY OF WATER: Winner of the Teos Fantasy and Sci-fi Literary Contest, the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize for young authors and the Nuori Aleksis Award. It was also nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the 2014 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the Compton Crook Award, Golden Tentacle Award and Arthur C. Clarke Award.• MEMORY OF WATER has topped the paperback chart in FinlandCompetition: The Sudden Appearance Of Hope; The Lost Child Of Lychford (Witches Of Lychford); Fellside; Ninefox Gambit (Machineries Of Empire Book 1); Uprooted. Matt Haig;M. R. Carey; Claire North; Paul Cornell; Yoon Ha Lee;
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