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The woman who borrowed memories : selected stories
- Title
- The woman who borrowed memories : selected stories / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella ; introduction by Lauren Groff.
- Author
- Jansson, Tove
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2014]
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- Description
- xi, 283 pages; 21cm.
- Summary
- An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson excelled at the brief tale, writing stories that in their short spans unfold to reveal entire worlds. This is true of her internationally syndicated cartoon strip about a family of hippo-like creatures, the Moomins; of her beloved Moomin novels; and of her best-selling books for adults, like The Summer Book. Until now, however, Jansson's short stories have been nearly impossible to find in the United States. This volume brings together, for the first time in English, a generous selection of stories from the most fruitful period of her career, from her earliest collected stories, dating from the early 1970s, to her mature work, written not long before her death in 2001. In them are moments of the sublime and the mundane, as well as small heroisms and large griefs. Unsentimental, yet kind and humane, Jansson's short stories complement and enlarge our understanding of a giant of world literature.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Contents
- From The listener (1971): The listener -- Black-white -- The other -- The storm -- The wolf --- The squirrel -- From The doll's house (1978) : The monkey -- The cartoonist -- White lady -- The doll's house -- A leading role -- The locomotive -- A memory from the New World -- From Traveling light (1987) : An eightieth birthday -- The summer child -- A foreign city -- The woman who borrowed memories -- Traveling light -- The garden of Eden -- Shopping -- The gulls -- Correspondence -- From Letters from Klara (1991): Letters from Klara -- From Messages, selected stories, 1971-1997 (1998): My beloved uncles -- Letters to Konikova -- Messages.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-5404
- ISBN
- 9781590177662 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1590177665 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014023731
- OCLC
- 869527270
- Author
- Jansson, Tove, author.
- Title
- The woman who borrowed memories : selected stories / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella ; introduction by Lauren Groff.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Added Author
- Teal, Thomas, translator.Mazzarella, Silvester, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Jansson, Tove. Woman who borrowed memories New York : New York Review Books, 2014 9781590177938 (DLC) 2014028207
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-5404