In Karin Tidbeck's dystopic imagining, language has the power to shape reality. But when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony and a cover-up by its administration, she begins an investigation that puts her at tremendous risk. Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja finds herself falling in love with her housemate, Nina, and decides to stick around.
It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion. Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. "A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language-literally.
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