The Summer Book

Name: The Summer Book
Brand: MKPlus
SKU: 267602
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TOVE JANSSON

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ISBN

9780954221713

Mladinska knjiga ID

267602

Velikost (šxdxv)

150 × 200 × 10

Status dobavljivosti

7-10 delovnih dni

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ANG

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TOVE JANSSON

Opis

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. 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. This new edition, with a Foreword by Esther Freud, sees the return of a European literary gem - fresh, authentic and deeply humane.

Publisher and industry reviews

Jacket review
"'The Summer Book is a marvellously uplifting read, full of gentle humour and wisdom.' Justine Picardie, Daily Telegraph 'A marvellous book.... The prose is sublime.' Murrough O'Brien, Independent on Sunday 'It's hard to describe the astonishing achievement of Jansson's artistry... a perfection of the small, quiet read.' The Guardian, BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Jansson was a genius, a woman of profound wisdom and great artistry, and this is a book to treasure.' Philip Pullman 'Every so often, a book is published that captures something in us.... The Summer Book is one of those.' Rachel Simhon, The Daily Telegraph"

UK Kirkus review
Take a book in which nothing happens and there is no plot, but there are lashings of positive feelings presented simply, and it will become a cult. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (now past its 25th anniversary edition) and Jonathan Livingston Seagull are both bestsellers. The Summer Book is in this mould - it manages to make you feel good as well as wise, without having to make too much effort. It has already achieved modern classic status in the author's native Scandinavia, where it has been in print since first published over 30 years ago. Although Jansson is best known for her Moomin children's books, this is no-frills adult fiction that reads like memoir. An old woman spends the summers on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland with her six-year-old granddaughter. They wander around, pick flowers, watch storms, take an occasional trip in a rowing boat to a neighbouring island, talk about and to the cat, and turn over stones. But under every stone they turn, there's an observation far deeper than the island's shallow soil. When the grandmother proclaims, 'Only farmers and summer guests walk on the moss.... The second time it doesn't rise back up. And the third time you step on moss, it dies,' you know she's not really talking about moss at all, but delivering a lesson on life itself. Jansson's delight with small things is infectious. Her Lilliputian kingdom, based on a real island she inhabited, may have no great sights or dramatic landscape but when she describes the way a raindrop sits on a single leaf, we are entranced. This charming book demonstrates that you don't have to be grand to be great. Review by Dea Birkett (Kirkus UK)