It isn’t until about halfway through that the already tense conditions get worse. Most people work in the mushroom farms, for cripes’ sake.įor such a short novel, Amatka is a surprisingly slow burn. Children are raised communally and only visit their birth parents on the weekends. Her job seems so decadently capitalist in a colony that seems to some straight from central casting’s idea of dreary communism. Her job in the brutally depressing colony is to learn more about their hygiene habits so that her sisters company in Essre can sell them different soaps and products. Vanja has been sent from the big city to the freezing colony of Amatka with a strange task. No one questions this, at least until Vanja arrived in the colony and starts to wonder. They just know that this is the way things are. Names have so much power in the colonies, in fact, that if the residents don’t constantly tell things what they are that the things will dissolve into sludge if they’re not named frequently enough. In the colonies of Amatka, by Karin Tidbeck, names have the power to shape reality. If you know the true name of something, you can control it-as Rumpelstiltskin learned to his sorrow.
Anyone familiar with myth knows that names have power.
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