The summer book
Jansson, Tove, 1914-20012003
Book
'The Summer Book' is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.
Main title:
The summer book / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal foreword by Esther Freud.
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Imprint:
London : Sort Of, 2003.
Collation:
172 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Republished with a new foreword. - Originally published: New York : Pantheon ; London : Hutchinson, 1975.This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon; London: Hutchinson, 1975.
ISBN:
9780954221713 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.7374FICTIONFIC JAN
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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BRN:
6758