SORT OF BOOKS – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:39:16 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png SORT OF BOOKS – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 The Summer Book : A Novel https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/narrativa-in-inglese/the-summer-book-a-novel-9780954221713/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:36:13 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=22365 The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love. An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other’s fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges – one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself.

Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her adult novels. With a foreword by Esther Freud and an afterword by Sophia Jansson (on whom the child ‘Sophia’ is based) who returns to the island during the pandemic at the point of becoming a grandmother herself.

Includes a 15pp epilogue by Tove’s niece Sophia Jansson – the inspiration for ‘Sophia’ – on a personal and moving return to the island.

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