9781590172681-159017268X-The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)

The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)

ISBN-13: 9781590172681
ISBN-10: 159017268X
Edition: Later Printing
Author: Tove Jansson
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback 184 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781590172681
ISBN-10: 159017268X
Edition: Later Printing
Author: Tove Jansson
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback 184 pages

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The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics) (ISBN-13: 9781590172681 and ISBN-10: 159017268X), written by authors Tove Jansson, was published by NYRB Classics in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.49.

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In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs. They discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love. “On an island,” thinks the grandmother, “everything is complete.” In The Summer Book, Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life.

Tove Jansson, whose Moomintroll comic strip and books brought her international acclaim, lived for much of her life on an island like the one described in The Summer Book, and the work can be enjoyed as her closely observed journal of the sounds, sights, and feel of a summer spent in intimate contact with the natural world.

The Summer Book is translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal.

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