Notes from an Island
Tove Jansson's most personal book and a homage by two artists to the island they loved. In her late-forties, Tove Jansson, helped by a maverick seaman called Brunström, raced to build a cabin on an almost barren outcrop of rock in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for twenty-six summers Tove and her life partner, the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a memoir and homage to the island the two women loved intensely and relinquished only when pressed by age. It is also…
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Weitere Autoren: Pietilä, Tuulikki
- ISBN: 978-1-908745-95-8
- EAN: 9781908745958
- Produktnummer: 37295810
- Verlag: Sort Of Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
The writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is best known as the creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in English sixty years ago and have remained in print ever since. She finished the sequence in 1970 and went on to write a dozen novels and story collections, most famously The Summer Book. Sort Of Books publish almost all of her work in English, as well as her letters and an authorised biography by Boel Westin.
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