Notes from an island ; and, The island
(2024)
By:
Jansson, Tove
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
839/JANSSON,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2024
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
126 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781643264790, 1643264796 :, 1643264796, 9781643264790
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
First published in Swedish by Schildts, 1996. The Island, first published in Swedish in 1961
Foreword / by Alex Chee -- Editor's note -- Notes from an Island -- The island, an essay
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 shifting seascapes and the island's austere rocky charms
Translated from the Swedish