Emmi Itäranta

"The Moonday Letters is a thing entirely its own, full of melancholy, a sense of wonder and hope." Hannu RajaniemiAn effortlessly rich and lyrical mystery wrapped in a love story that bends space, time, myth and science, perfect for fans of Octavia Butler and Emily St. John Mandel.An effortlessly rich and lyrical mystery wrapped in a love story that bends space, time, myth and science, perfect for fans of Octavia Butler and Emily St. John Mandel.Sol has disappeared. Their Earth-born wife Lumi sets out to find them but it is no simple feat: each clue uncovers another enigma. Their disappearance leads back to underground environmental groups and a web of mystery that spans the space between the planets themselves.Told through letters and extracts, the course of Lumis journey takes her not only from the affluent colonies of Mars to the devastated remnants of Earth, but into the hidden depths of Sols past and the long-forgotten secrets of her own.Part space-age epistolary, part eco-thriller, and a love story between two individuals from very different worlds.

With the lyricism of Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO, and the world building brilliance of Atwood, Emmi Itaranta's effortless and poignant debut novel is a coming of age story full of emotional drama and wonderment. Some secrets demand betrayal. 'You're seventeen, and of age now, and therefore old enough to understand what I'm going to tell you,' my father said. 'This place doesn't exist.' 'I'll remember,' I told him, but didn't realise until later what kind of promise I had made. When Noria Kaitio reaches her seventeenth birthday, she is entrusted with the secret of a freshwater spring hidden deep within the caves near her small rural village. Its preservation has been the responsibility of her family for generations. Apprenticed to her father, one of the last true tea masters, when Noria takes possession of the knowledge, she become much more than the guardian of ancestral treasure; soon, she will hold the fate of everyone she loves in her hands.

Galardonada con los más prestigiosos premios literarios de su país: el Teos y el Kalevi Jäntti para autores jóvenes y vendida a más de diez países, esta novela se ha convertido en la revelación de la