Amatka (2012)

An information worker's visit to a tightly controlled colony becomes an investigation into what its administration wants people to accept. Tidbeck makes language part of the world's physical conditions, so an authorised description has more than rhetorical force. Read the author's own English version for a short, unnerving account of records, suppressed knowledge and the risk of speaking differently. Its strange reality rewards patience, especially when a reassuringly orderly explanation begins to seem inadequate.