Emmi Itäranta

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.

A Novel

Memory of Water

Moonday Letters

Maailmasta on loppumassa vesi. Suunnattoman katastrofin - ehkä ilmastonmuutoksen, ehkä jonkin muun - läpikäynyt ihmiskunta sinnittelee veden vähyyden ja sen säännöstelyä hallitsevan diktatuurin vallan alla. Vain kaatopaikoille hautautunut teknologia ja teemestarien sukupolvien ajan pitämät päiväkirjat muistuttavat entisistä ajoista. Noria on teemestarien sukua, ja pian on hänen vuoronsa ottaa vastaan täysivaltaisen teemestarin arvo - ja edeltäjiensä tarkkaan varjelema salaisuus. Aikana, jona veden kätkeminen on rikoksista pahin, sotilasvallan katseet kiinnittyvät väistämättä teemestarin taloon... Emmi Itärannan esikoisromaani "Teemestarin kirja" on harvinaisen uskottava ja pelottava kuvaus mahdollisesta tulevaisuudestamme. Samalla Itärannan kieli on kuitenkin kuulasta, tarkkaa ja paisuttelematonta. Kirjalle myönnettiin Kalevi Jäntin palkinto 2012 ja sen käännösoikeudet on myyty useisiin maihin. Emmi Itäranta (s. 1976) on kaksinkertainen maisteri ja kolumnisti, joka työskentelee Kentin yliopistossa Canterburyssa, Isossa-Britanniassa. Hän on toiminut mm. dramaturgina, käsikirjoittajana, teatterikriitikkona ja tiedottajana. Hänen tekstejään on julkaistu science fiction -lehdissä ja antologioissa Suomessa ja Isossa-Britanniassa.

Teemestarin kirja

'Where itaranta shines is in her understated but compelling characters' Red star review (for MEMORY OF WATER), Publishers Weekly. Emmi Itäranta’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 City of Woven Streets

Kaspar Colling Nielsen

Karin Tidbeck

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Hannu Rajaniemi

Johanna Sinisalo

Tone Almhjell

Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson

Thore Hansen

Johann Thorsson

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Maria Haskins

Margrét Helgadóttir  (Editor)

Jakob Drud

Lene Kaaberbø

Rakel Helmsdal

The first true celebration of contemporary Nordic science fiction, fantasy and horror!

A Unique Speculative Fiction Collection From The Nordic Countries

Storytelling has been a major force in the Nordic countries for thousands of years, renowned for its particular sense of dark humour, featuring pacts with nature and a view of the worlds you seldom find in other places.

Perhaps it is the freezing cold winter? The closeness to the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic? Maybe it’s the huge ancient forests...

Most have heard about Nordic crime fiction with its dark noir flare or the Icelandic Sagas. This anthology combines all that is unique about Nordic speculative fiction, from the darkest dystopian science fiction to terrifying horror. From the rational to the eccentric, these stories combine a deep sense of place with social criticism, themes of loneliness and the concern for humanity's impact on the wilderness.

Featuring 15 stories from the best contemporary speculative authors from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and The Faroe Islands, including John Ajvide Lindqvist, Hannu Rajaniemimany, Tor Åge Bringsværd and more, many of which are appearing in English for the very first time. 

Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction

A gripping sci-fi mystery wrapped in an LGBTQIA love story that bends space, time, myth and science. Lumi is an Earth-born healer whose Mars-born spouse Sol disappears unexpectedly on a work trip. As Lumi begins her quest to find Sol, she delves gradually deeper into Sol’s secrets – and her own. While recalling her own path to becoming a healer under the guidance of her mysterious teacher Vivian, she discovers an underground environmental group called Stoneturners, which may have something to do with Sol’s disappearance. Lumi’s search takes her from the wealthy colonies of Mars to Earth that has been left a shadow of its former self due to vast environmental destruction. Gradually, she begins to understand that Sol’s fate may have been connected to her own for much longer than she thought. Part space-age epistolary, part eco-thriller, The Moonday Letters is also a love story between two individuals from very different worlds.

The Moonday Letters

Kuunpäivän kirjeet

The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous island world. 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.

The Weaver

I en avlägsen framtid är vår jord olik den vi känner idag. Kina har tagit makten över Europa och vatten är en bristvara som ransoneras. Den globala uppvärmningen har påverkat allt. Noria är 17 år och bor långt upp i norr. Hon lärs upp att ta över som temästare efter sin pappa. Hon får kunskap om familjens gömda källa. Den som militären är på jakt efter. [Barnbokskatalogen].

Minnet av vatten

Lumenlaulaja 

Der Geschmack von Wasser

Kudottujen kujien kaupunki

Die Stadt der verbotenen Träume

Hazel Gaynor

Joshilyn Jackson

Nadia Hashimi

Holly Brown

Katherine Harbour

Mary McNear

CJ Hauser

Carrie La Seur

Rebecca Rotert

M. P. Cooley

Sarah Creech

New York Times bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson presents The New Voices in Fiction Sampler: Summer Selection. This free e-book sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and upcoming titles by debut fiction authors you'll want to get familiar with early on. The New Voices in Fiction Sampler: Summer Selection includes: An Introduction from Joshilyn Jackson and an excerpt from her latest novel, Someone Else's Love Story, on sale now. And excerpts from: The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor Up at Butternut Lake by Mary McNear The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta The From-Aways by CJ Hauser Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert Don't Try to Find Me by Holly Brown Ice Shear by M.P. Cooley The Home Place by Carrie La Seur Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson

Summer Selection

The New Voices in Fiction Sampler

O aquecimento global mudou a geografia do mundo e sua política. Guerras são travadas sobre a água, e a China governa a Europa, incluindo a União Escandinávia, que é controlada pelo estado de Novo Qian. Neste lugar distante, Noria Kaitio, de dezessete anos, está aprendendo a se tornar um mestre do chá como seu pai, uma posição que detém grande responsabilidade e grandes segredos. Mestres do chá sabem a localização de fontes de água escondidas, incluindo a nascente natural desconhecida que o pai de Noria protege, uma vez que ela fornece água para toda a sua aldeia. Mas segredos não ficam escondidos para sempre, e após a morte de seu pai, o exército começa a desconfiar de sua cidade - e de Noria. Agora, com a água ainda mais escassa, ela deve escolher entre guardar este segredo e negar ajuda ao restante da população ou ajudá-los e arriscar a própria vida.

Memória da água

Emmi Itäranta

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