"(I)t manages to make you feel good as well as wise, without having to make too much effort.
As Philip Pullman so succinctly puts it, Tove Jansson was a genius." - Ali Smith, The Guardian Her writing is all magical deception, her sentences simple and loaded the novel reads like looking through clear water and seeing, suddenly, the depth. "Jansson's brilliance is to create a narrative that seems, at least, to have no forward motion, to exist in lit moments, gleaming dark moments, like lights on a string, each chapter its own beautifully constructed, random-seeming, complete story.Der Rest ist Nüchternheit, Sturm, prekäres Gleichgewicht." - Monika Osberghaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Die Idylle ist in diesen Episoden so flüchtig wie die kurze Zeit im Frühsommer, in der das Moos blüht und die ganze Insel mit einem warmen, kaum sichtbaren Schleier überzieht.The UK (Sort Of) edition has a Foreword by Esther Freud.The US (NYRB Classics) edition has an Introduction by Kathryn Davis.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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