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Tove Jansson

The Summer Book

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The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love.
‘The Summer Book is a marvellously uplifting read, full of gentle humour and wisdom.’ Daily TelegraphAn 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 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. New and beautifully presented edition of a Scandinavian literary classic by Finland's most translated author should appeal to all ages dissolving boundaries between fiction, biography and travel.
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139 печатни страници
Оригинална публикация
2011
Година на публикуване
2011
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  • dariabutdariaсподели впечатлениепреди 3 години
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    what a fantastic book full of heart-warming and ludicrous stories about an all-i-want-to-know little girl and her charming grandmother. be ready to the cheeks hurt from laughing. it’s magnificent, really!

    p.s. just read it whenever you want to feel (again) in your chest that soft and warm feeling of outgoing summer.

  • Alexandra Skitiovaсподели впечатлениепреди 2 години

    Отзывы часто говорят, что эта книга наполнена ощущенмем уюта, но я этого не заметила. Напротив, показаны люди, точно первобытеые, затерянные среди гигантской природы. Книга скорее грустная философская притча.

    The book appeared to be rather a philosophic parable than a collection of cozy stories as I had expected. All the book is imbibed with the idea of God, and imparts to a reader some sort of a melancholic air. The Grandmother and Sophia learn from each other and the Great Nature of the Island, and thus try to comprehend the Uneverse. It feels clearly in chapters about the Cat, the toy Venice, the Tent, and especially in 'Sophia's storm'. And of course it is worth to read because of the brilliant images of the Nordic Nature crated by the renowned author's pen.

  • Настя Мозговаясподели впечатлениепреди 4 години
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    какая тёплая и глубокая книга с искрой и лёгкостью.

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  • Настя Мозговаяцитирапреди 4 години
    It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.
  • se0enaцитирапреди 2 месеца
    “But it’s spring!” Sophia said. “They don’t die now; they’re brand new and just married—that’s what you said!”
    “Well,” Grandmother said, “it did die now, all the same.”
    “How did it die?” Sophia yelled. She was very angry.
    “Of unrequited love,” her grandmother explained. “He sang and scolded all night for his scolder hen and then along came another and stole her away, so he put his head under the water and floated away.”
    “That’s not true,” Sophia screamed. She started to cry. “Long-tails can’t drown. Tell it right!”
    So Grandmother told her he had simply hit his head on a rock. He was singing and scolding so hard that he didn’t look where he was going, and so it just happened, right when he was happier than he’d ever been before.
    “That’s better,” Sophia said. “Shall we bury him?”
    “It’s not necessary,” Grandmother said. “The tide will come in and he’ll bury himself. Seabirds are supposed to be buried at sea, like sailors.”
  • se0enaцитирапреди 2 месеца
    “The worm probably knows that if it comes apart, both halves will start growing separately. Space. But we don’t know how much it hurts. And we don’t know, either, if the worm is afraid it’s going to hurt. But anyway, it does have a feeling that something sharp is getting closer and closer all the time. This is instinct. And I can tell you this much, it’s not fair to say it’s too little, or it only has a digestive canal, and so that’s why it doesn’t hurt. I am sure it does hurt, but maybe only for a second.”

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