Loukko by 
The City of Woven Streets (Kudottujen kujien kaupunki, Teos 2015), Emmi Itäranta’s anticipated second novel, arrived in Finnish bookstores earlier this month. Literary bloggers are praising Itäranta’s story of an island community in which dreaming is forbidden and a mysterious disease is spreading.
The City of Woven Streets will publish next year in the UK and U.S. by HarperCollins as The Weaver.
Praise for The City of Woven Streets:
“The City of Woven Streets fulfills the expectations set by Memory of Water. It takes its reader to the core of humanity and to the drowning and building of a world. It also shows what a person can give another: dreams and love.”
– Lumiomena (“Snow Apple”) literature blog, Finland
“Emmi Itäranta has the ability to create worlds in an undefined time…she has a bright future as a storyteller of fantasy; she has original ideas, a beautiful mastery of language and an ability to set the mood.”
– Tuijata culture blog, Finland
“This is an example of a book really hitting its target. The City of Woven Streets traps a reader in its web right away, and doesn’t let go until days after one has finished. Rich, polished, complete, whole.”
– Eniten minua kiinnostaa tie (“I am Most Interested in the Road”) blog, Finland
Itäranta’s debut Memory of Water (Teos 2012), published by HarperCollins in 2014, was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Golden Tentacle award, a category of the Kitschies fantasy and speculative fiction awards. It was also praised by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Guardian and The Washington Post, and was included on the Honor List of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Rights are sold in 19 territories, and film rights have been optioned.
About The City of Woven Streets:
In the City of Woven Streets, human life has little value. You practice a craft to survive, or you are an outcast, unwanted and tainted. Weaver Eliana is hiding a shameful birth defect – the ability to have dreams – that would, if exposed, land her in the House of the Tainted. After meeting a woman with her tongue cut off and Eliana’s name tattooed on her skin, Eliana discovers an invisible network of power behind the city’s facade. All the while an unknown disease is spreading, and the streets are slowly drowning.
RIGHTS SOLD: MEMORY OF WATER
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
WORLD ENGLISH, HarperCollins (2-book deal)
ARABIC, Dar Al Muna
BRAZIL, Record (2-book-deal)
BULGARIA, Perseus
CZECH, Albatros Media/Plus
DENMARK, Turbine
ESTONIA, Koolibri
FRANCE, Place des Editeurs (2-book deal)
GEORGIA, Palitra L Publishing
GERMANY, DTV/Reihe Hanser
HUNGARY, Metropolis Media (2-book deal)
ITALY, Sperling & Kupfer
JAPAN, Nishimura Shoten (2-book deal)
KOREA, The Book in My Life
NORWAY, Gresvik Forlag
RUSSIA, Text Publishers
SPAIN, Ediciones B.
TURKEY, Dogan Egmont
RIGHTS SOLD: THE CITY OF WOVEN STREETS
WORLD ENGLISH: HarperCollins
BRAZIL: Record
FRANCE, Place des Editeurs
HUNGARY: Metropolis Media
JAPAN: Nishimura Shoten
Reading material:
The City of Woven Streets
Finnish edition
English edition (not final)
English synopsis
Memory of Water
English edition
French edition
German edition
Spanish edition
Contact: info@ahlbackagency.com
