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The Summer Book

Tove Jansson,

Esther Freud (Contributor)

Start date: January 1, 2017

Finish date: January 31, 2017

Discussion: Around Europe 2017

Discussion leader: Dianne

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Oct 19, 2022 Nike rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This must be the most beautiful and wise and true book that has ever been written. I don't want to end it. I listened to this book since it was the author herself who read it. With her beautiful accent (I'm Swedish and I don't know any more beautiful accent of our language than the melodious and exotic dialect spoken by the Swedish speaking minority in Finland) and with her firm and unsentimental attitude towards the story, this is a book that shall be listened to (if one understands the languag ...more

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