Description
Step into a hush of Arctic cold and imaginative wonder through a luminous collection of Tove Jansson’s winter tales, where loneliness, art, and the sea’s pull shape lives as surely as the snow. Across stories told with a childlike clarity and a quietly unsettling edge, strange creatures and surprising powers surface in small boats and isolated landscapes, inviting readers to follow characters as they wrestle with longing, creativity, and the meanings they find—or invent—against the dark. Selected and introduced by Ali Smith, these translated stories gather early adult work alongside later favorites, revealing Jansson’s distinctive gift for turning introspection into something vivid and strange. With afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud, and Frank Cottrell Boyce, this is a short, brittle, deeply satisfying journey into the imagination’s resilience.
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paperback
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Published Jan 1, 2006
214 pages
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Details
First Published
1957
Language
eng
Translation
From: fin
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Content and trigger warnings for A Winter Book by Tove Jansson.