The summer book

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Tove Jansson: The summer book (1988, Schocken Books, Distributed by Pantheon Books)

166 pages

English language

Published Feb. 12, 1988 by Schocken Books, Distributed by Pantheon Books.

ISBN:
978-0-8052-0850-4
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5 stars (2 reviews)

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reviewed The summer book by Tove Jansson (New York Review Books classics)

what a beautiful book

5 stars

I broke my phone so I spent a few days carrying my lightest book around. I‘m thinking a lot about plants reflecting the seasons lately and this has a lot of beautiful nature writing in it, alongside two lovingly drawn characters. It really makes me want to read Tove Jansson‘s other adult fiction, and to go stay with friends or family somewhere beautiful and a bit inconvenient. Didn‘t quite make me cry but it was close. I think I‘ll reread this one :)

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