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Notes from an Island

Notes from an Island

Jansson, Tove
Chee, Alexander

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralNature Writing

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1643264796
ISBN13: 9781643264790
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
If you never see me again in life after this book is published, it is because I left to find an island of my own at last. ―Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Tove Jansson was a genius, a woman of profound wisdom and great artistry. --Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials

In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson--author of the iconic novel The Summer Book and the beloved Moomin series--built a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. For thirty years, Tove and her beloved partner, Tuulikki Tooti Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by flora, fauna, the shifting seascapes, and solitude and shifting seascapes. Jansson's spare, quirky prose, and Tooti's subtle artwork combine to form a work of meditative beauty. Notes from an Island is both a beautiful chronicle of a rugged ecology and an intimate collaboration between to artists in love with each other--and the island itself. This edition also includes Jansson's essay The Island, described by Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz as ...a short story, an essay, and a prose poem ... the text seems to change following mysterious tides from a timeless present to an urgent past.

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