Sophia and her grandmother are interesting characters. In The Summer Book, Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life.Įach chapter in The Summer Book is a separate vignette detailing the lives of Sophia and her elderly grandmother on a remote Finnish island during the summer. 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. 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. In The Summer Book, Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer-its sunlight and storms-into twenty-two crystalline vignettes.
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