But as you continue to read, you realize they’re linked vignettes of life on an isolated island, the story of a cheeky grandmother and her precocious granddaughter, Sophia.

The opening chapters have a flash-fiction feel: they are short, choppy, and do not appear to be linear. After spotting her 1972 novel, The Summer Book-a slim volume with a muted, pastel cover with the silhouette of an island in its center-on display at a local bookstore, I decided to give this author I’d never heard of a shot. Lesser championed are Jansson’s novels for adult readers, which do not feature fantastical beings but, instead, follow the lives of very real humans. The tales of the Moomins and their fantastical journeys through Moominvalley are something of a cult classic and I’m sad to have missed them in my youth. Most people familiar with the Finnish author and illustrator know her as the creator of the Moomins, a family of hippopotamus-like creatures first introduced in a children’s book series in 1945 and then adapted for a comic strip. OL2196048W Page_number_confidence 92.92 Pages 214 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211012175721 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 481 Scandate 20211007225729 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780954899523 Tts_version 4.I came to Tove Jansson’s work late in life and in a backward fashion.

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A winter book by tove jansson