Tove Jansson
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English
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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...
2) Fair Play
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating.
Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows...
Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows...
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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An NYRB Classics Original
Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive...
Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive...
5) Juego limpio
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Español
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Mari es escritora, Jonna es artista. Mari y Jonna comparten la vida desde hace décadas, una vida de trabajo, pero también de deleite y a veces de consternación. Discuten, sobre arte, sobre sus padres. Se critican el trabajo, a veces con amabilidad, otras con dureza. Se ríen, ven películas, recuerdan su juventud, pasan tiempo en la cabaña de la isla, o viajan por los Estados Unidos. Cada una conoce perfectamente los hábitos de la otra y los...
Author
Series
Moomin books volume 3
Language
English
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Moomintroll, Sniff, and Snufkin, who live in the forests of Finland, find a hobgoblin's hat.
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Deutsch
Description
Sophia und ihre Großmutter verbringen den Sommer auf einer winzigen Insel im finnischen Meerbusen. Die beiden streifen umher, plaudern, streiten, stellen Fragen. Zusammen mit ihnen erleben wir eine Welt voller kleiner Wunder - und eine rundum glückliche (Hör-)Zeit. Tove Jansson, die Autorin der MUMIN-Geschichten, lässt viele ihrer eigenen Erfahrungen in dieses Buch einfließen. Ein poetischer und heiterer Roman, der den finnischen Sommer atmet....
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Deutsch
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Tove Jansson ist dank ihrer MUMIN-Bücher weltweit bekannt und beliebt. Ihre Bücher zählen zu den Klassikern der skandinavischen Literatur. Das WINTERBUCH versammelt viele der beliebtesten Erzählungen für Erwachsene von der finnlandschwedischen Autorin. Mit feinem Humor und Melancholie begleitet dieses Buch die Leserinnen und Leser durch die dunkle Jahreszeit. Eine Jahreszeit, die neben Schnee, Eis und Kälte auch besondere Naturerlebnisse, Zurückgezogenheit...
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Series
Moomin books volume 5
Language
English
Description
A flood hits Moomin Valley and triggers a series of adventures for the Moomins.
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"...the late Finnish artist Jansson drew a comic strip about her creation Moomin for the London Evening News. Though the strip was an enormous success around the world, this is the first North American edition of an expressive and endearing classic. Moomin's stories begin simply (he needs to rid his home of freeloaders, or goes on a family vacation) and snowball into a series of amusing, whimsical misadventures, which can involve elements of the fantastic,...
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Series
Moomin books volume 9
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Winter's approach brings six friends together in Moominvalley where, in the Moomins' absence, they must visit with each other.