Der neue Roman von der Autorin des international gefeierten Debüts »Der Geschmack von Wasser«.
Eliana ist eine pflichtbewusste Weberin im prestigeträchtigen Haus der Spinnweben. Sie kann lesen und schreiben und sie kann träumen, eine Fähigkeit, die der »Rat« der Inselstadt strengstens untersagt. Niemand spricht über die Träumer, die in der Gesellschaft geächtet werden. Eines Tages wird ein junges Mädchen bewusstlos aufgefunden. Der einzige Hin...
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...
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 tapestry of life may be more fragile than it seems: pull one thread, and all will unravel.
In the City of Woven Streets, human life has little value. You practice a craft to keep you alive, or you are an outcast, unwanted and tainted. Eliana is a young weaver in the House of Webs, but secretly ...
Eliana is a model citizen of the island, a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs. She also harbors dangerous secrets—she can read and write, which is forbidden to most women—and 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 uncon...
