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A review by arcadiabooks
Kuunpäivän kirjeet by Emmi Itäranta
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
The writing in this book is really beautiful, mesmerizing and poetic. It's a story about love, hope, despair, the state of the future, humankind, nature, a search for something and someone, a story about longing.
I really liked this book, even tho it was quite slow paced, the poetic text and the well-written story kept me going. I appreciated the fact that the couple, Lumi and Sol, were a queer couple, Sol being to my understanding a non-binary person.
The state of the humankind in the book (after around 100 years from now) was realisticly built. Humans had found habitable places outside of Earth, and many started living in those new places, because the state of the environment was terrible on Earth. Nature was annihilated to say the leasy. Even after finding new places and hope, the humankind stayed the same: destroying what we have and keeping up with the hierarchies and structures where some people or places are worthier than the other.
Sol tried to make things turn to the better, but got swept away to something quite else. They thought of a better world where nature would be valued and tried to pursue with that value in mind. Only to be tangled in a more complicated situation that they probably even ever imagined.
The search of Sol by Lumi, their partner was quite interesting. Lumi really did love Sol and didnt give up the pursue no matter what. At first Sol seemed like a cold person, who had just disappeared without explanation, but as things progressed, I got to understand more. The characters are quite deep, which i like.
I dont know if I understood the ending though. That doesnt mean I didnt like it still. It left me thinking.Did the couple ever actually meet again? Or did they just meet in the place they created in their minds?
I really liked this book, even tho it was quite slow paced, the poetic text and the well-written story kept me going. I appreciated the fact that the couple, Lumi and Sol, were a queer couple, Sol being to my understanding a non-binary person.
The state of the humankind in the book (after around 100 years from now) was realisticly built. Humans had found habitable places outside of Earth, and many started living in those new places, because the state of the environment was terrible on Earth. Nature was annihilated to say the leasy. Even after finding new places and hope, the humankind stayed the same: destroying what we have and keeping up with the hierarchies and structures where some people or places are worthier than the other.
Sol tried to make things turn to the better, but got swept away to something quite else. They thought of a better world where nature would be valued and tried to pursue with that value in mind. Only to be tangled in a more complicated situation that they probably even ever imagined.
The search of Sol by Lumi, their partner was quite interesting. Lumi really did love Sol and didnt give up the pursue no matter what. At first Sol seemed like a cold person, who had just disappeared without explanation, but as things progressed, I got to understand more. The characters are quite deep, which i like.
I dont know if I understood the ending though. That doesnt mean I didnt like it still. It left me thinking.