Amatka
Karin Tidbeck's debut novel, set in a cold colony where objects must be named or they fall apart, in Vintage's 2017 paperback.
Karin Tidbeck wrote Amatka in Swedish, published it in 2012, and translated it into English themselves for this 2017 edition. Vanja is sent to the colony of Amatka to find out which hygiene products people use there. She falls for her housemate Nina and stumbles on a threat and a cover-up. In this world language controls matter. Tidbeck describes the book as a thought experiment, not a dystopia.
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