La Memoria del Agua

from amsee

"Water is the most versatile of all elements. It isn't afraid to burn in fire or fade into the sky, it doesn't hesitate to shatter against sharp rocks in rainfall or drown into the dark shroud of the earth. It exists beyond all beginnings and ends." Set in a post-apocalyptic world where water is ...

from LGCullens

This story is a slow burner in a future climate changed world, with portents dribbled out sparingly. The writing is accomplished with fleshed out characters, but a bit drawn out in inundating one in thoughts of water, snow and ice of a distant past, heat, and insects; and the descriptive text is ...

from AltheaAnn

Blurb comparing a book to Ursula LeGuin? Gets me to read it every time...Yes, I can see where the comparison came from. It probably reminds me most of the feel of LeGuin's 'Annals of the Western Shore' trilogy. The similarity is not so much in actual content, but in what is dwelled on; the themes...

from Strider66

Pros: lyrical prose, philosophical, characters face difficult choices Cons: slow In a world where water is tightly controlled by the military, Noria Kaitio is training as her father's apprentice to become a tea master. Tea masters historically had a duty to preserve sacred springs, and her family...

from SheTreadsSoftly

Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta is a highly recommended, sensitive dystopian novel set in a future where water is scarce and controlled by the military.Noria Kaitio, 17, is studying with her father to continue the family tradition of tea master. Set in future Finland, now part of the New Qian em...