Emmi Itäranta Boeken

An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. But secrets do not stay hidden forever, and after her father’s death the army starts watching their town—and Noria. And as water becomes even scarcer, Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship. Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible.

Eliana is a model citizen of the island, a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs. She also harbors a dangerous secret she can dream, an ability forbidden by the island's elusive council of elders. No one talks about the dreamers, the undesirables ostracized from society. But the web of protection Eliana has woven around herself begins to unravel when a young girl is found lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the stones outside the house. Robbed of speech by her attackers, the only clue to her identity is one word tattooed in invisible ink across her palm: Eliana. Why does this mysterious girl bear her name? What links her to the weaver and could she hold Eliana's fate in her hand? As Eliana finds herself growing closer to this injured girl she is bound to in ways she doesn't understand, the enchanting lies of the island begin to crumble, revealing a deep and ancient corruption. Joining a band of brave rebels determined to expose the island's dark secrets, Eliana becomes a target of ruthless forces determined to destroy her. To save herself and those she loves, she must call on the power within her she thought was her greatest weakness: her dreams.

Milostný román finské autorky odehrávající se ve vědecko-fantastických kulisách dokazuje univerzálnost milostného citu v jakékoli době a podobě. Léčitelka Lumi pochází ze Země a její choť, špička v oblasti botaniky Sol, z Marsu. Když se Sol dlouho nevrací ze služební cesty, spustí Lumi pátrání a postupně odhaluje tajemství, která před ní Sol skrývá. Stopy ji vedou z bohatých marsovských kolonií na zdevastovanou planetu Zemi, ale také do světů ztracených duší, kam dokáží vstoupit jen léčitelé. Jak se zmizením souvisí tajná ekologická skupina? A čeká Lumi a Sol na jejich meziplanetárních křižovatkách vůbec ještě budoucnost? Nakladatelská anotace.