The Summer Book

The Summer Book

Infobox Book
name = The Summer Book
title_orig = Sommarboken
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author = Tove Jansson
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country = Finland
language = Swedish
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publisher = Sort of Books
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english_pub_date = 2003
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The Summer Book (in the original Swedish "Sommarboken") is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1972.

Plot

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia spend a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland exploring, talking about life, nature, everything but their feelings about Sophia's mother's death and their love for one another.

ee also

*Tove Jansson


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