The woman who borrowed memories
Subtitle: selected stories
By: ove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella ; introduction by Lauren Groff
Contributors: Teal, Thomas, translator; Mazzarella, Silvester, translator; Groff, Lauren, author of foreword
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781590177662
Subjects: Swedish Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson excelled at the brief tale, writing stories that in their short spans unfold to reveal entire worlds. This is true of her internationally syndicated cartoon strip about a family of hippo-like creatures, the Moomins; of her beloved Moomin novels; and of her best-selling books for adults, like The Summer Book. Until now, however, Jansson's short stories have been nearly impossible to find in the United States. This volume brings together, for the first time in English, a generous selection of stories from the most fruitful period of her career, from her earliest collected stories, dating from the early 1970s, to her mature work, written not long before her death in 2001. In them are moments of the sublime and the mundane, as well as small heroisms and large griefs. Unsentimental, yet kind and humane, Jansson's short stories complement and enlarge our understanding of a giant of world literature.
Notes: Translated from the Swedish.
Table of contents: title: From The listener (1971):; title: The listener --; title: Black-white --; title: The other --; title: The storm --; title: The wolf ---; title: The squirrel -- -- From The doll's house (1978) :; title: The monkey --; title: The cartoonist --; title: White lady --; title: The doll's house --; title: A leading role --; title: The locomotive --; title: A memory from the New World -- -- From Traveling light (1987) :; title: An eightieth birthday --; title: The summer child --; title: A foreign city --; title: The woman who borrowed memories --; title: Traveling light --; title: The garden of Eden --; title: Shopping --; title: The gulls --; title: Correspondence -- -- From Letters from Klara (1991):; title: Letters from Klara -- -- From Messages, selected stories, 1971-1997 (1998):; title: My beloved uncles --; title: Letters to Konikova --; title: Messages.