Description
A tender, quietly radical novel, this story follows two lifelong women—an artist and a writer—who share their days in Helsinki studios, travel together, and spend summers on a remote island. As they work side-by-side, their love is revealed through small, deliberate adjustments: the respect they offer each other’s creative lives, the compromises they make, and the care that deepens over time. With philosophical calm and intimate attention to everyday moments, the book explores themes of devotion, artistic labor, companionship, and the dignity of choosing one another again and again. Translated for the first time into English, it showcases Tove Jansson’s distinctive blend of warmth and insight, offering a relationship that feels both heartening and unmistakably progressive.
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paperback
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Published Dec 14, 2011
89 pages
ISBN: 9781908745200
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First Published
1989
Language
eng
Translation
From: swe
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