Notes from an Island - Softcover

Jansson, Tove; Pietilå, Tuulikki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908745940 ISBN 13: 9781908745941

Publisher: Sort of Books, 2024

Synopsis

Features Tove's seven page prose poem, The Island, published for the first time in the UK

About this title

About the Author

The writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is best known as the creator of the Moomin children's stories, which have been published in 35 languages. The Summer Book was one of ten novels she wrote for adults. It is regarded as a modern classic throughout Scandinavia.

From the Back Cover

In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes.Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and ''Tooti'' shared for their island and for each other.

Tove''s spare prose, and Tuulikki''s subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty.''... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It''s all peace and quiet now.''

Edition details

• Publisher: Sort of Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908745940
• ISBN 13: 9781908745941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112