Everything that is the beauty of summer is in this book.Everything I hope to be as a grandmother is in this book. Everything in this book is all sensitive moss and red spiders.
"'Do you believe I can dive without me showing you?' the child asked.'Yes, of course,' Grandmother said.”--"An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place."
Delightful and dour all at the same time. So many things to like, especially the relationship between Sophia and her grandmother. One of the things I liked best though was the expansiveness of time and rest in the book. Everyone, even hard-working Papa, is slipping away to take a nap at various time...
A six-year old girl spends the summers with her grandmother on a small island in the gulf of Finland. The girl's father is there, too, but he's mainly working and a background character. The relationship is not a kissy-huggy one. The grandmother is quite caustic at times and Sophie seems to shout a ...
I remember Tove Jansson as the author of the Moomintroll children's books, and had no idea she wrote books for adults, as well. This book is a collection of vignettes about Sophie and her grandmother, on the island where they spend their summers. Sophie's father is mentioned in some of the vignett...
A quiet depiction of the emotional life of a very old woman and a very young girl, in the setting of a small northern island. Pitch-perfect right to the end. Besides the exquisite last chapter, I think the one about the tent and the memories of scouting spoke to me most, but there were too many grea...
Condition: NewGreener Books UK £0.01Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal. Foreward by Esther Freud. Some lovely photographic plates included.The start:The Morning Swim.It was an early, very warm morning in July, and it had rained during the night.RE-READ DETAILS:Sophia recalls summer time with...
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