Summer Book (Jansson - paperback)

Author: Tove Jansson

ISBN: 9781590172681

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. 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. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs, and discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love.