Memory of Water : A Novel

Rating: 4 (7 votes)

Tags: Female author

Description:

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.

Reviews:

Lauren Stoolfire (5 months ago)	07 May, 2025 Memory of Water Emmi Itäranta is a solid dystopia with an intriguing story, but I wish the pacing could have been better.
Michele Ardente (2 years ago)	16 Mar, 2023
Katy Salisbury (2 years ago)	10 Jul, 2023
Fiona Cameron-Mackintosh (2 years ago)	30 Aug, 2023
Dawid Crook (1 year ago)	28 Dec, 2023
Agnes Serrano Karlsson (1 year ago)	15 Apr, 2024
Veera Volanen (7 months ago)	03 Mar, 2025