The Moonday Letters

[A] thrill ride… Itäranta’s book does what solarpunk should do: it presents a bold vision, with a road map, and, crucially, it clarifies what hope is and what it can do.

A quietly powerful meditation on the human need to share life and love with others.

The prose of the book is measured, evocative, lucid, poetic, full of gravitas and emotion alike. This puts Itäranta in the same linguistic league as Nabokov, Conrad, Thomas Olde Heuvelt and Hannu Rajaniemi, masters in dual languages… [A] bravura, complex tapestry of a book.

I was put strongly and favourably in mind of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). Both books are restrained novels; both start in fog, and spend more time looking inward than outward; both are about narrators who don’t allow themselves to know everything a reader might want to know. And both are novels in which the closing pages unleash a painful clarity.

Emmi Itäranta’s semi-mystical cosmology is captivating.

Just read it, it is a great book.

Brilliantly weaves together its two central questions: whether one marriage can survive, and whether humanity can find a way to thrive that does not ultimately rest on exploitation and inequality.