A winter book
Subtitle: selected stories
By: Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella, David McDuff and Kingsley Hart ; introduced by Ali Smith.
Publisher: Sort Of
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: swe
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780954899523
Subjects: Jansson, Tove. -- Translations into English.; Autobiographical fiction, Swedish -- Translations into English.; Sweden -- Fiction.
Genres: Translations into English.; Fiction.
Description: Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose.
Table of contents: label: Introduction by Ali Smith
title: 11; label: Part 1
title: Snow; label: The Stone
title: 21; label: Parties
title: 27; label: The Dark
title: 34; label: Snow
title: 42; label: German Measles
title: 52; label: Flying
title: 57; label: Annie
title: 63; label: Part 2
title: Flotsam and Jetsam; label: The Iceberg
title: 73; label: Albert
title: 78; label: Flotsam and Jetsam
title: 85; label: High Water
title: 92; label: Jeremiah
title: 99; label: The Spinster Who Had An Idea
title: 107; label: The Boat and Me
title: 118; label: Part 3
title: Travelling Light; label: The Squirrel
title: 127; label: Letters from Klara
title: 153; label: Messages
title: 164; label: Correspondence
title: 171; label: Travelling Light
title: 178; label: Taking Leave
title: 197; label: Afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce
title: 206