This book, in addition to the only novel written by Tove Jansson "City of the Sun" about serene old age on the coast and the poignant story "Summer Book" about a girl who lost her mother, as well as stories and short stories already known to the Russian reader, also includes works translated into Russian for the first time . The northern atmosphere of the diary "Notes from the Island", dedicated to the construction of a house on Klovharun and life there, creates the effect of being on an island pierced by the winds of the Gulf of Finland and filled with the cries of seagulls, unceremoniously intruding into the life of the settlers. And under the general heading "The Boulevard and Other Texts" lies a number of early short stories and essays by Jansson, published in periodicals in different years of her creative activity. In them, Tove tells what it is like to be a children's writer, reflects on painting and criticizes architecture that makes a person unhappy.
And through all this variety of texts, the depth and character of the famous writer is fully revealed.
Author: Tove Jansson
Pages: 672 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 140x210 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. big books
