6/19/2023 0 Comments Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta![]() ![]() This is not without danger: all water belongs to the military, and water crimes are punishable by death.įiction about futures with water shortage isn’t particularly rare. ![]() At the beginning of the novel, her father lets her in on a secret: he guards a hidden spring that has been her family’s responsibility for generations. The 266 page book’s protagonist is Nario Kaitio, 17, and the daughter and apprentice of a tea master in a rural Scandinavian village, way up north. Those reviewers that complain about this book being boring, about having a plot in which nothing happens, similarly miss the point.Įmmi Itäranta’s debut novel is a quiet dystopian novel, set in a future where climate change has happened, fresh water is scarce and China has annexed Scandinavia. It turned out tea is not about complexity at all. The woman serving me looked at me in surprise, at first not even understanding my question. ![]() I don’t know anything about tea, and I asked for the “most complex” tea they had – thinking tasting tea was like tasting wine or whiskey. A quiet space, with dozens and dozens of fresh, handpicked, rare teas to choose from – each tea requiring its own precise water temperature & seeping duration. ![]() A few years ago I visited a specialized tea place in Barcelona, Spain. ![]()
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