[I am writing this before reading what you wrote]
"Twenty-six months before her first birthday, Maia learned
the true difference between winter and summer."
Oh, this is what we, timeline-maniacs, love. One sentence that
says *a lot* about an alien world. The rest of the introduction
is also full of "alien" words or ideas, so much that I suspected
that the book wasn't about human beings.
- a special star, Wengel
- having a _father_ as something to be shamed of
- "var", meaning something offensive ["dirty var"], meaning a "summer kid"
- "pure Lamai", the opposite, which becomes clear is a clone [so, we may
infer that "var" is a normal kid]; also "winterlings".
Also, the punchline:
"It seemed reason enough to become friends. Even better than
the fact that they looked as alike as two stars in the sky".
>From someone with an astrophysical background, this is
a clever hint that, no matter how superficially Maia and Leie
do look like, they are wildly different!
Alberto Monteiro
