Tove Jansson The Summer Book (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Summer BookCondition: NewEAN: 9780954221713ISBN: 9780954221713Edition: MainPublisher: Sort of BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/29/2003Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 34mmItem Weight: 224gAuthor: Tove JanssonLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0954221710Description: Tove Jansson's classic, bestselling novelSoon to be a major motion picture starring Glenn Close'Distils the essence of summer' Robert Macfarlane'Magical, life-affirming' Elizabeth Gilbert The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love.An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself.Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her adult novels. With a foreword by Esther Freud and an afterword by Sophia Jansson (on whom the child 'Sophia' is based) who returns to the island during the pandemic at the point of becoming a grandmother herself.Includes a 15pp epilogue by Tove's niece Sophia Jansson - the inspiration for 'Sophia' - on a personal and moving return to the island.'Eccentric, funny, wise, full of joys and small adventures. This is a book for life.' Esther Freud'Tove Jansson was a genius. This is a marvellous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny.' Philip PullmanCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionSubtitle: A NovelRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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