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An island tribute and love story
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for fans of The Summer Book
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Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietila
Where the Moomins were written
Product details
- ISBN 9781908745941
- Weight: 212g
- Dimensions: 134 x 202mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2024
- Publisher: Sort of Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms. Notes from an Island, offers both a memoir of, and homage to, this beloved island home. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints, combine to form a work of meditative beauty.
This edition includes the first UK publication of Tove's acclaimed 1961 essay/prose poem, The Island.
Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is best known as the creator of the world famous Moomin stories and as author of The Summer Book. For more than forty years she shared her life with the graphic artist and professor, Tuulikki Pietilä (1917-2009). Klovharun was their summer island refuge.
