The Summer Book

✍ Scribed by Tove Jansson

• Publisher: Sort Of Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 303 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The Summer Book?? TOVE JANSSON?? WITH A FOREWORD BY ESTHER FREUD 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 favou.;Cover; Title Page; Thanks; Table of Contents; Foreword; The Morning Swim; Moonlight; The Magic Forest; The Scolder; Berenice; The Pasture; Playing Venice; Dead Calm; The Cat; The Cave; The Road; Midsummer; The Tent; The Neighbour; The Robe; The Enormous Plastic Sausage; The Crooks; The Visitor; Of Angleworms and Others; Sophia's Storm; Day of Danger; August; Other Tove Janssson titles; Copyright.