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A Winter Book

Tove Jansson

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Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith, and there are afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.

The Winter Book features thirteen stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) along with seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 208 pages

Publication:: 2006

Publisher:: Sort Of Books

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0954899520

ISBN13:: 9780954899523

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A Winter Book

Tove Jansson

3.84/5 (2726 ratings)

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Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith, and there are afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.

The Winter Book features thirteen stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) along with seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 208 pages

Publication:: 2006

Publisher:: Sort Of Books

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0954899520

ISBN13:: 9780954899523

kindle Asin:

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