Description
| Product ID: | 9780954899523 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | A Winter Book |
| Subtitle: | Selected Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Tove Jansson |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this translated selection provides a showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. ''Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.''Ali SmithFollowing the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson''s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer''s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith.A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson''s first book for adults, The Sculptor''s Daughter (1968) plus seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time. |
| Imprint Name: | Sort of Books |
| Publisher Name: | Sort of Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-11-01 |