Vanja soon learns that her carelessness could spell disaster in the cold, polar community that is to be her new home.
She comes from the capital city of Essre, where things must be marked in order to retain their shape and function, but marking takes on a new, dire importance in Amatka. Vanja, a government pollster, is sent to a remote, agrarian commune to research the toiletry and cosmetics needs of its citizens. When the markings run out, those things revert back to their original state, a paste-like substance that can move and grow of its own accord. The markings won't last forever, but things can be kept in shape longer if one tells them what they are - a fact of life that even very young children know. In the world of Amatka, a single, strange substance is used to create nearly every inanimate object, which must be shaped and marked with words dictating its function. This book is Nineteen Eighty-Four meets The Stuff. So you can imagine just how thrilled I was to find Karin Tidbeck's Amatka - a horror novel set in a quasi-Soviet state. I later found the same sense of dread I got from Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale in horror novels from Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates. Reading it for the first time 20 years ago set off a lifelong love affair with dystopian fiction and books set in Soviet Russia and the DPRK. įor the last two-thirds of my life, George Orwell's Animal Farm has been my absolute favorite novel, bar none. Colyard writes about Karin Tidbeck's Amatka. Bustle's I'm So Jealous series is dedicated to the books, TV shows, movies, podcasts, and more that super fans are so jealous someone else gets to experience for the first time.
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