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From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida.In works like The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as well as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn again and again to the everyday life of the aged. Not as a group apart, but as full-blooded people, with as many jealousies, urges, and joys as any other group. And so it is no wonder that in her travels th...

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For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms. Notes from an Island, offers both a memoir of, and homage to, this beloved island home. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints, combine to form a work o...

Tove's tribute to her island refuge and the art of Tuulikki Pietila

Debut collection of short stories from the Moomins author, translated into English for the first time. Original and deep, dealing with secrets, vignettes of a city storm and the slow halting of spring. Jansson's titles have sold over 200, 000 copies in the UK.

Trade paperback. A collection of adult short stories from the creator of "The Moomins", written in the 1970s and translated into English for the first time. There will be major Moomin and Jansson promotions and events at the London Southbank Nordic Festival this year, and the exhibition of the Art of Tove Jansson will move to the Dulwich Picture Gallery in autumn 2017.

A New York Review Books Original Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they've never rea...

Stories first published in Swedish by schildts Forlags Ab, Finland, Translations first published in English in A winter book (2006), Travelling light (2010), Art in nature (2012), and The listener (2013) by Sort of Books, London"--Title page verso.

A New York Review Books OriginalWinner of the Best Translated Book AwardDeception-the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others-is the subject of this, Tove Jansson's most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate.Snow has...