Unless objects, buildings, and the surrounding landscape are repeatedly named, and named properly, everything will fall apart. 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.
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