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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Fiction Novels Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jansson, Tove. Summer book. New York : Pantheon Books, [1975], ©1974 (OCoLC)583382776 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tove Jansson; Thomas Teal |
ISBN: | 0394492498 9780394492490 |
OCLC Number: | 1056979 |
Notes: | "Originally published in Sweden as Sommarboken by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm. Copyright ©1972"--Title page verso. |
Credits: | Introduction by Kathryn Davis (New York Review of Books ed.). |
Description: | 166 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Other Titles: | Sommarboken. |
Responsibility: | Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal. |
Abstract:
"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.
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