Anaché

A mythic, emotionally powerful and unique fantasy from the award-winning author of Tangled Roots!

✓ Maria Turtschaninoff’s YA series Red Abbey Chronicles has been sold to 31 territories, and her first adult novel to 23 territories!

✓ Maria Turtschaninoff is a two-time winner of the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, a nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and winner of the 2014 Finlandia Prize!

✓ Timeless themes of grief, gender identity, queerness, and rebellion feel even more relevant today

✓ Rich, literary fantasy with strong feminist and queer themes

Anaché is an unforgettable novel – fierce, tender, and deeply human!

Anaché grows up in a nomadic family, under the strict discipline of her father. Her beloved brother Huor teaches her to hunt, fight and ride a horse, things that girls are not usually allowed to do. Anaché’s future is mapped out for her, just like it is for all the girls in the tribe. After a difficult winter, Anaché’s mother and brother die. Her grief is so strong that in order to hold on to her loved ones, she becomes someone else.

Anaché was originally published in 2012, and still feels astonishingly timely. In her fantasy novel, Maria Turtschaninoff explores themes of trans identity, gender roles, climate change, and patriarchal power. But above all, it is a sweeping, irresistible story just like Turtschaninoff’s first adult novel Tangled Roots (Arvejord).