Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta

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I'm not sure who recommended this book, because I never write that down when I put books into my to read list, but whoever it was, thank you!


For everyone else, I really loved this book. It's about water and tea and life and death, and the interaction of these things. It's post-apocalyptic dystopia, but focussing on one woman and her struggle, rather than the big picture. The apocalypse was vclimate change and a plausible future if we don't do something - the world was plausible and consistent, but a nice background to the main character, Noria, and her life, loves, hopes and fears.

It's beautifully written, the metaphors aren't laboured but rather free flowing. I think this is now my favourite fantasy book about tea - feel free to recommend more!

Also, that is now four books in a row which I have had enough thoughts about, so either I've been reading thinky books or I've been just generally in an introspective mood, which is possible.

Comments

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That sounds really interesting; do you have the book in a shape that you could lend to me?

I definitely need more books about tea :-) I quite liked Tea with the black dragon; I'm not sure it's my favourite, but it's the first one that comes to mind.

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No, sorry, it was library. Which means the library has it :)

Adding to me to read list, thank you.