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A winter book : selected stories / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella, David McDuff and Kingsley Hart ; introduced by Ali Smith.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Jansson Winter
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jansson, Tove, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Jansson, Tove--Translations into English.
- Jansson, Tove.
- Autobiographical fiction, Swedish--Translations into English.
- Autobiographical fiction, Swedish.
- Finland--Fiction.
- Finland.
- Sweden.
- Swedish fiction--Translations into English.
- Swedish fiction.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Autobiographical fiction
- Short stories
- Fiction
- Translations
- Short stories.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sort Of, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Swedish.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The stone
- Parties
- The dark
- Snow
- German measles
- Flying
- Annie
- The iceberg
- Albert
- Flotsam and jetsam
- High water
- Jeremiah
- The spinster who had an idea- The boat and me
- The squirrel
- Letters from Klara
- Messages
- Correspondence
- Travelling light
- Taking leave.
- Notes:
- Includes afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud, and Frank Cottrell Boyce.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0954899520
- 9780954899523
- OCLC:
- 70230278
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