Book description
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila, retreated there toâŠ
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1 author picked Notes from an Island as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Tove Jansson was one of my favourite authors as a child, thanks to her magical Moomin series.
Her fiction for adults, too (The Summer Book, Art in Nature) is wonderful. However, I have gone for one of her lesser-known books, Notes from an Island, which is simply a short journal with brief and starkly beautiful diary entries concerning the times she spent with her partner, Tuulikki PietilÀ, on a barren and otherwise uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland.
The book is a collaboration - PietilĂ€ supplied stark, minimalist illustrations - and it also includes sections ofâŠ
From Irfan's list on nature-writing with humans at the center.
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