[PDF.22mq] The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)

The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)

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 | #60389 in Books |  Jansson, Tove/ Davis, Kathryn (INT)/ Teal, Thomas (TRN) |  2008-05-20 |  2008-05-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.50 x5.00l, | File type: PDF | 184 pages

 | New York Review of Books

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| A deceptively simple spare, beautiful and haunting story. I loved it!|By Linda Linguvic|This book was the choice of my reading group at my local bookstore and for the first time, the more than 30 people who attended were unanimous in their praise of this book which was first published in Finland in 1972 and translated into English in 1974. This is a story of a six year old| ||"It's deceptively simple, refreshingly unembellished, distilled, grounded in sensory experience, and absolutely direct. It's comforting for precisely the same reasons it's unsettling, like standing on the shore looking across a dark sea at a horizon you swear

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 ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)   |  Tove Jansson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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