The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)

by Tove Jansson

Kathryn Davis (Introduction) and Thomas Teal (Translator)

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In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a...Read more
  • ISBN10 159017268X
  • ISBN13 9781590172681
  • Publish Date 20 May 2008 (first published 1 January 1975)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The New York Review of Books, Inc
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