Cover art for A Winter Book
Published
Profile Books, November 2006
ISBN
9780954899523
Format
Softcover, 208 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 13.2cm × 1.8cm

A Winter Book Selected Stories by

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Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths.

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