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Tove Jansson - The summer Book
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Penguin books 1977. Paperback. Ejernavn i kuglepen på titelblad. Se fotos. Fragt 47kr GLS
Bogen er på Engelsk og skrevet af mimmiernes mor Tove Jansson.
The Summer Book (Swedish: Sommarboken) is a novel written by the Finland-Swedish author Tove Jansson in 1972.
Plot
An elderly woman and her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia spend a summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland exploring, talking about life, nature, everything but their feelings about Sophia's mother's death and their love for one another.[1]
Reception
The novelist Ali Smith, reviewing the book in The Guardian, wrote that Jansson was better known for her Moomin books than for her novels, and that with her worldwide fame, she knew the virtues of withdrawal. In Smith's view, The Summer Book is an astonishing achievement of artistry, "the writing so lightly kept, so simple-seeming, so closely concerned with the weighing of moments that any extra weight of exegesis is too much."[2] Telling the tale of the child and her grandmother in the simplest language, Smith writes, "The threat of brevity, even on this timeless island in this timeless, gorgeous summer, is very marked. But Jansson's brilliance is to create a narrative that seems, at least, to have no forward motion, to exist in lit moments, gleaming dark moments, like lights on a string, each chapter its own beautifully constructed, random-seeming, complete story. Her writing is all magical deception, her sentences simple and loaded; the novel reads like looking through clear water and seeing, suddenly, the depth."[2] Smith praises Thomas Teal's English translation as "original and stunning".[2]
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