Itäranta, Emmi
Entry updated 31 August 2018. Tagged: Author.
(1979- ) Finnish journalist, scriptwriter and author, resident in England; her first novel, Teemestarin kirja ["The Book of the Master of Tea"] (2012; English version by author as Memory of Water 2014), is a Young Adult tale set in a Dystopian seemingly distant Near Future which is dominated by China and in which Climate Change has caused a profound scarcity of water. The narrative is told with what might be called liquid if sometimes ethereal grace. [JC]
Emmi Itäranta
born 1979
died
works
- Teemestarin kirja ["The Book of the Master of Tea"] (Helsinki, Finland: Teos, 2012) [binding unknown/]
- Memory of Water (London: Harper Voyager, 2014) [English version of the above: composed in English: hb/Shutterstock]
- Kudottujen Kujien Kaupunki ["The City of Woven Streets"](Helsinki, Finland: Teos, 2015) [binding unknown/]
- The City of Woven Streets (London: HarperVoyager, 2016) [trans by the author of the above: pb/]
- The Weaver (New York: HarperVoyager, 2016) [vt of the above: pb/]
- The City of Woven Streets (London: HarperVoyager, 2016) [trans by the author of the above: pb/]
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