"Emmi Itäranta (DOB 1976) was born in Tampere, Finland, where she also grew up. Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible." More on Goodreads On Emmi Itäranta 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. "Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. One day someone who doesn’t remember us will walk on our skin and flesh and bones, on the dust that remains of us.” “Most of the soil we walk on once grew and breathed, and once it had the shape of the living, long ago.
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