The Weaver Book Talk with Emmi Itäranta

Celebrated Finnish author Emmi Itäranta discusses her second novel The Weaver (Harper Voyager, November 2016), a finely crafted fantasy tale that seamlessly blends a coming-of-age story with high-stakes intrigue and danger.

Eliana is a model citizen of the island, a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs. She also harbors a dangerous secret—she can dream, an ability forbidden by the island’s elusive council of elders. No one talks about the dreamers, the undesirables ostracized from society. But the web of protection Eliana has woven around herself begins to unravel when a young girl is found lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the stones outside the house.

Robbed of speech by her attackers, the only clue to her identity is one word tattooed in invisible ink across her palm: Eliana. Why does this mysterious girl bear her name? What links her to the weaver—and could she hold Eliana’s fate in her hand?