Summer Book From the New York Times

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove

New Statesman

but more to the point

a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked--a novel about extinction and survival

Summer Book From the New York TimesIn 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