An edition of A winter book
(2006)
A winter book
selected stories
by Tove Jansson
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Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose.
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Autobiographical fiction, Swedish, Translations into English, Swedish Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Sweden, fiction, Jansson, tove, Autobiographical fiction, swedish--translations into english, Pt9875.j37 w58 2006, 839.7374People
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Table of Contents
Introduction by Ali Smith. 11
Part 1. Snow
The Stone. 21
Parties. 27
The Dark. 34
Snow. 42
German Measles. 52
Flying. 57
Annie. 63
Part 2. Flotsam and Jetsam
The Iceberg. 73
Albert. 78
Flotsam and Jetsam. 85
High Water. 92
Jeremiah. 99
The Spinster Who Had An Idea. 107
The Boat and Me. 118
Part 3. Travelling Light
The Squirrel. 127
Letters from Klara. 153
Messages. 164
Correspondence. 171
Travelling Light. 178
Taking Leave. 197
Afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce. 206
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Following 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.
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