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Original Title:	Sommarboken
ISBN:	0954221710 (ISBN13: 9780954221713)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Finland

The Summer Book

Tove Jansson

Paperback | Pages: 172 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 17553 Users | 2188 Reviews

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Title	:	The Summer Book
Author	:	Tove Jansson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 172 pages
Published	:	May 29th 2003 by Sort of Books (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Classics

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An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the island itself, with its mossy rocks, windswept firs and unpredictable seas.

Full of brusque humour and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own experience and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of the novels she wrote for adults. This new edition sees the return of a European literary gem - fresh, authentic and deeply humane.

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Ratings: 4.08 From 17553 Users | 2188 Reviews

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I'm sorry, Tove. It's not you, it's me. I was all set to love this book but found myself too impatient to read it at its own pace, to unpack its subtleties. Too often I found myself zoning out or when I thought I was all set for a prolonged engaged reading session suddenly I found myself more interested in looking at my phone. The episodic structure reminded me of Bruno Schulz's "The Streets of Crocodiles," with the crazy grandfather replaced by a sane grandmother, with everything throughout

Last night I had the great pleasure of closing this book. That might sound like an odd thing to say for a book that Im giving 5 grand yellow stars to, but pleasure is what I felt when I turned that final page and saw that the next one was blank, and that behind that was the front side of the back cover. My first thought was this writer gets it. This book leaves the reader satisfied. I wonder if I have ever appreciated that so much. I suspect a lot of that comes down to the remarkable craft on

This is the quietest great book I've ever read.Every once in a while I read a book that makes me jealous, that makes me wish I could write and do what the book did. Like this one. It's a wisp of a book - brief, with no plot to speak of and only two real characters, no compelling crisis to drive the action, no suspense.I almost cried when it ended.It's like a watercolor of only four or five easy strokes, that you can't help but stare at for hours.Yeah.So, this girl Sophia and her grandmother, and

This is the quietest great book I've ever read.Every once in a while I read a book that makes me jealous, that makes me wish I could write and do what the book did. Like this one. It's a wisp of a book - brief, with no plot to speak of and only two real characters, no compelling crisis to drive the action, no suspense.I almost cried when it ended.It's like a watercolor of only four or five easy strokes, that you can't help but stare at for hours.Yeah.So, this girl Sophia and her grandmother, and

4.5/5 Say this: say I hate everything that dies slow! Say I hate everything that won't let you help! There are many books I've read that, according to others, I should not have resonated with, the reason usually being that I am not old and/or have not experienced enough. However, years of intensive delving into fiction have honed my empathy to the point that a conjured "What if..." proves as potent as an actual happening, a heightened sense that, like any other, has equally powerful benefits and

A little girl full of spunk and her elderly grandmother full of wisdom spend summer days on an island, discovering nature and sometimes helping it along. Both of them have crotchety days, rebellious moods and use salty language. They are both creative individuals who tolerate and love each other. This is a quietly fascinating little book, and the author very deftly penetrates the minds and feelings of both the 6 year old Sophia and the 85 year old grandmother.

The Summer Book is less of a conventional story than a series of vignettes about summers spent on an island by Sophia and her Grandmother (her father is there too, but only as a rather distant character). The events take place over more than one summer, but it is not clear how many, and there is no definite timeline, which gives the whole thing a rather dreamy and nostalgic vibe. Sophia was occasionally a little bit brattish, but I loved the character of Grandmother who was brusque to the point