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Just arrived from UK and it was kindly sent by H. Turner. Not so great as I expected.
This wonderfully quiet and subtle books is filled with heart.
In The Summer Book, Tove Jansson gave us the story of a young girl named Sophie and her grandmother. Every summer the family spent the season on a small island off the coast of Finland, exploring the land and talking about everything under the sun. Sophie and her grandmother adopt a cat, swim in the ocean, search for missing false teeth, and even break into the home of a neighbor. But what they really do is bond -- forming a sweet and ...more
In The Summer Book, Tove Jansson gave us the story of a young girl named Sophie and her grandmother. Every summer the family spent the season on a small island off the coast of Finland, exploring the land and talking about everything under the sun. Sophie and her grandmother adopt a cat, swim in the ocean, search for missing false teeth, and even break into the home of a neighbor. But what they really do is bond -- forming a sweet and ...more
Tove Jansson created this wonderful sense of place with The Summer Book. Every summer Sophia and her family go to their Island in the Gulf of Finland, only this summer, her mother is not with them, because she has died. Grandmother and granddaughter are at the center of this story. Their relationship is beautiful and raw. They learn from one another, from the ebb and flow of the Island, and from the sea.
The book is about Sophia and her paternal grandmother and the summers when they live in a summer house somewhere in the Finnish archipelago. Sophia lost her mother when very young, and the father is very distant, so the grandmother and Sophia develop a very special relationship. It’s characterized by honesty, sometimes a harsh one, but respectful. Sophia takes it for granted she can say what’s on her mind and how she feels without question, and she expects her grandmother to do the same. There i
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