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Notes from an Island Hardcover – October 7, 2021

by Tove Jansson (Author), Tuulikki Pietilä (Illustrator)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, 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 Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere rocky charms.

Notes from an Island, written in 1996, is both a chronicle of this period and a paean to the mature love that Tove and 'Tuuti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative and plangent beauty.
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    96 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Sort of Books
  4. Publication date
    October 7, 2021
  5. Dimensions
    7.8 x 0.55 x 9.29 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1908745932
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1908745934
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sort of Books (October 7, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1908745932
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1908745934
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.8 x 0.55 x 9.29 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 109 ratings

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Tove Jansson

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Tove Jansson (1914-2001) was born in Helsinki, and was an illustrator and political cartoonist for the left-leaning, anti-Fascist magazine Garm. She created a long-running comic strip and a series of children's books featuring the much-loved hippopotamus-like character, Moomintroll. She is also the author of eleven novels and short-story collections for adults, including The Summer Book and The True Deceiver. In 1994, she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy.

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Old Movies and Old Books
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2024
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Beautifully produced book featuring art by Tove Jansson's partner Tuulikki Pietilä. As usual with Jansson's work it's very therapeutic and escapist. I love revisiting it and mentally living on an island for a while.
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Orlita
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2023
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Couldnt stop reading once i started. So easy to read and what an interesting life they had on the island.
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Mrs Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars A real treat
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2021
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This book captures an essence of living on the coast with limited resources, but with skills and patience to make what you need. It is quite spare in the writing and in the illustrations, letting you draw from your own imagination or experience. Tove Jansson and Brunström's writing describes choosing a subsistence lifestyle for holidays.
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Screenwatcher
2.0 out of 5 stars Far from great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2023
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This is rather thin gruel indeed. I'm a great fan of Tove Jansson,
both her Moomin-books and her writings for adults, but this is
really hardly worth publishing in my humble opinion. The famous
name of the author seems to have blinded the publisher to the
fact that there is nothing very exciting here, even for the devoted
admirers of Tove. I would rather see some of her short novels still
not published in English, instead of this, f.ex. The Stone Field,
it would be more interesting, I think. Also I think the pictures
of Tuulikki are kind of dull and lack a distinct character.
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1939
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written and illustrated book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2022
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Lovely book
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