• Suomi English
  • Biography
  • The Moonday Letters
    • Awards
    • Reviews
  • City of Woven Streets
    • Awards
    • Reviews
  • Memory of Water
    • Awards
    • Reviews
  • My Diary
    • News
    • Events
  • Contact

Emmi Itäranta

Reviews of The Weaver / City of Woven Streets

Sam Reader

With vivid imagery, subtle menace, and a deeply human message, The Weaver is a deep and twisting tale of lasting power that will reward multiple readings.

Barnes&Noble

Nancy Hightower

Itäranta’s refined prose centers the story on the growing love between the two women while also touching on the unspoken, horrific violence against women and other oppressed groups.

The Washington Post

Megan M. McArdle

Itäranta delivers another lyrical dystopian novel. Those willing to put in the time will get a nuanced heroine, a tender love story, and lovely prose.

Library Journal

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW

Itäranta writes engagingly, displaying her setting and atypical characters in full color. Both seasoned readers of fantasy and newcomers to the genre will savor Itäranta’s captivating fiction.

Publishers Weekly

Shimo Suntila

The City of Woven Streets is a thoroughly beautiful novel, enchanting and dreamlike. The world of the book is rich, full of vivid details and secrets dormant under the surface. It keeps revealing new sides without fully exposing itself.

Tähtivaeltaja

Kaisa Kurikka

Itäranta writes elegantly, carefully listening to the rhythmic flow of each sentence and expression. The paths she builds into the story hint towards what is to come or explain what has passed, and the plot she has weaved holds its tensions right up to the end.

Turun Sanomat Newspaper

Ritva Hellsten

The way the author depicts the world she has created is concrete, sense-evoking. The fantasy society has been constructed to include vocabulary, objects and infrastructure. … It’s as if the language of the narration was a weave itself, airy, beautiful, mysterious. The City of Woven Streets is a captivatingly told thriller, which holds deep truths about authority, freedom and the power of love.

Kymen Sanomat Newspaper

Ina Ruokolainen

Itäranta braids at least three kinds of weaves to bind her book. The base is in the strong plot, which keeps the reader nicely captivated. … The language of The City of Woven Streets is at its best when the author, in a melancholy, declarative way, describes the inevitable battle against injustice and for humanity.

Savon Sanomat Newspaper

Toni Jerrman

From the fascinating scenes and finely constructed characters Itäranta knits a mesmerizing weave, in which a humane touch extends through even the wildest plot twists. In the end all the riddles reaching into the past, the imaginative sceneries and the webs of lies are merely one element in a story that glows with love and the fragility of human life at its core.

Helsingin Sanomat Newspaper

Markku Soikkeli

The world of Emmi Itäranta’s new fantasy novel is more original and profound than the northern dystopia of her debut. In that sense the new novel fulfils the expectations aimed at the internationally awarded author.

Aamulehti Newspaper

Annakaisa Suni

The City of Woven Streets, written simultaneously in Finnish and English by the Finn Emmi Itäranta, is timeless sci-fi about an isolated island where dreaming is forbidden.

Vihreä Lanka Magazine

Mikko Saari

In the beginning the plot is somewhat slow to progress, towards the end the pace picks up and the story is woven into an interesting conclusion. The narration is coiled and winding and the world pleasantly weird.

Kirjavinkit Site

© 2014-2020 Emmi Itäranta. All Rights Reserved | Legal & Privacy | By

Legal & Privacy

Using emmiitaranta.com

By accessing this website you agree to be bound by the conditions contained in this legal message, and further, you agree that the Courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute arising from this legal message.

Copyright

The copyright in the material contained in this website belongs to Emmi Itäranta and third parties where indicated. All rights are reserved. No part of this website, including but not limited to logos, graphics, sounds, text or images, may be copied, performed in public, broadcast or adapted without explicit prior written permission from us.

Third party links

Links contained in this website may lead to other websites not under our control. We are not responsible for the content of any linked website and cannot take responsibility for the consequences of your using the information or services on linked websites. The inclusion of any link on this website does not imply endorsement by us. We cannot guarantee that such links will work all the time.

Disclaimer

While we have taken every effort to ensure that the information contained within the website is correct, you should be aware that the information may be incomplete, inaccurate or may have become out of date. None of the information contained in this website should be relied upon as a statement or representation of fact.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable to any person for any loss or damage which may arise from the use of any information, services, goods or products contained in this website or any linked website.

Cookies on emmiitaranta.com

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

The information below explains the cookies we use and why.

Google Analytics

utma
utmb
utmc
utmz
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Read an overview of privacy at Google.

Change cookie settings for this website

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

☰ MENU
  • Suomi English
  • Biography
  • The Moonday Letters
    • Awards
    • Reviews
  • City of Woven Streets
    • Awards
    • Reviews
  • Memory of Water
    • Awards
    • Reviews
  • My Diary
    • News
    • Events
  • Contact