Memory of Water went on to win the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize for young authors and the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize in 2013. It was published to high praise in Finland in 2012, drawing comparisons to the works of Ursula K. Memory of Water is Emmi Itäranta’s award-winning speculative fiction debut novel, which she wrote simultaneously in English and Finnish. She must soon take responsibility for a secret carefully guarded by her predecessors: her family has been caring for a hidden freshwater spring for generations.Īs the army turns its attention towards the tea master’s house, Noria learns that knowledge and power are irrevocably connected – and that her choices will determine the fate of everyone she loves. In the far north, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is the last in the long line of tea masters. A military regime controls the remaining freshwater resources with an iron grip. The world is a landscape of drought and risen seas. ‘I’ll remember,’ I told him, but didn’t realise until later what kind of promise I had made. ‘You’re seventeen, and of age now, and therefore old enough to understand what I’m going to tell you,’ my father said.
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