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The summer book

Jansson, Tove, 1914-2003
Books, Manuscripts
'The Summer Book' is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.
Main title:
The summer book / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal ; foreword by Esther Freud.
Imprint:
London : Sort Of, 2003.
Collation:
172 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon; London: Hutchinson, 1975.
ISBN:
09542217109780954221713
Dewey class:
839.7'374FGAF
Local class:
FICFFT Pbk
Language:
EnglishSwedish
Index terms:
Comedy Humour Family
BRN:
404079
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