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The summer book / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal ; introduction by Kathryn Davis.
- Title
- The summer book / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal ; introduction by Kathryn Davis.
- Author
- Jansson, Tove
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, c2008.
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- Description
- xii, 170 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Sommarboken. English
- New York Review Books classics
- Alternative Title
- Sommarboken.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The morning swim -- Moonlight -- The magic forest -- The scolder -- Berenice -- The pasture -- Playing Venice -- Dead calm -- The cat -- The cave -- The road -- Midsummer -- The tent -- The neighbor -- The robe -- The enormous plastic sausage -- The crooks -- The visitor -- Of angleworms and others -- Sophia's storm -- Day of danger -- August.
- ISBN
- 9781590172681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 159017268X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007052591
- OCLC
- 166387949
- SCSB-11172553
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library