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The Summer Book

by Tove Jansson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780954221713
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sort of Books
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  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: GBP 10.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 228 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Own Voices

An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on 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.

Review

This slim, wise masterpiece... is both unsentimental and heart-melting, and I read it every year. -- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love ― Guardian

It is like looking through clear water and seeing, suddenly, the depth ... Jansson was a writer who knew the proper magnitudes of our small worlds. -- Ali Smith

The Summer Book's limpid style belies a deep psychological subtlety...Rereading it now, it feels like a survival guide. -- Melissa Harrison

Tove Jansson was a genius. This is a marvellous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny. -- Philip Pullman

This is a wonderful, life-affirming, spirited book. Reading it was a tonic. -- Chris Stewart (author, Driving Over Lemons)

It's hard to describe the astonishing achievement of Jansson's artistry . . . a perfection of the small, quiet read. -- Ali Smith ―
Guardian, Book of the Week

The Summer Book is a marvellously uplifting read, full of gentle humour and wisdom. -- Justine Picardie ―
Daily Telegraph

Eccentric, funny, wise, full of joys and small adventures. This is a book for life. -- Esther Freud

A marvellous book.... The prose is sublime: plain, but not oppressively so. ―
Independent on Sunday

Few books since Robinson Crusoe have evoked the joys of island living so powerfully as this Finnish novella. -- Jonathan Heawood ―
Observer

A wonderful novel to devour in the sunshine . . . full of charm and character. -- Benedicte Page ―
the Independent

An odd but beautiful novel which blends humour and poetry with detailed observation of tiny things. -- Georgia Metcalfe ―
Daily Mail

Every so often, a book is published that captures something in us. . . . The Summer Book is one of those. -- Rachel Simhon ―
The Daily Telegraph

About the Author

The writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is best known as the creator of the Moomin children's stories, which have been published in 35 languages. The Summer Book was one of ten novels she wrote for adults. It is regarded as a modern classic throughout Scandinavia.

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