发表于2024-11-22
The Summer Book 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: ToveJansson 外国文学 芬兰 儿童 文学 北欧 英文 NYRB
In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs. They discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love. “On an island,” thinks the grandmother, “everything is complete.” In The Summer Book , Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life.
Tove Jansson, whose Moomintroll comic strip and books brought her international acclaim, lived for much of her life on an island like the one described in The Summer Book , and the work can be enjoyed as her closely observed journal of the sounds, sights, and feel of a summer spent in intimate contact with the natural world.
The Summer Book is translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal.
原来是一本老书啊,难怪纽约书评作为classic推荐的
评分上半年从学校图书馆借的英文原版读的,最浮躁的时期每天一点时间一字一句读下来渐渐地心变的特别平静。后来在纪录片里看到了 Tove Jansson 生活过的这个小岛的原型,变的特别想去芬兰看一看。" It was just the same long summer,always,and everything lived and grew at its own pace."
评分a beautiful and tender little book.
评分Very charming little book
评分R4 同下 或者我喜欢书呆子
The Summer Book 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书