It is a dystopian/apocalyptic fiction about a future with ever decreasing amounts of potable water. Memory of Water should have been right up my alley. Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible. And as water becomes even scarcer, Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship. 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.īut secrets do not stay hidden forever, and after her father’s death the army starts watching their town-and Noria. 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. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. Retrieved 10 April 2015.Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014.

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The English language version of the book has been featured on several shortlists in both the US and the UK - the Philip K. It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Tähtivaeltaja Award. The book won the Kalevi Jäntti Award in 2012, and the Nuori Aleksis Award in 2013. The Finnish manuscript won the Fantasy and Sci-Fi Literary Fiction contest organised by Teos in 2012 and was subsequently published. Set in a dystopian future where fresh water is scarce, it tells the story of Noria, a young tea master's apprentice, who must come to terms with a great secret and even greater responsibility that follows this knowledge. The Finnish version of the novel, which Itäranta wrote simultaneously along with the English one, was published in Finland in 2013 by the publishing house Teos.

Memory of Water (Finnish: Teemestarin kirja, 'The Tea Master's Book') is the debut novel by Finnish author Emmi Itäranta, published in 2014 by HarperCollins.

The memory of water by emmi itaranta