Travelling Light

Author: Tove Jansson

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Price : $19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780954899585
Publisher : Sort of Books
Imprint : Sort of Books
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Weight (g) : 0.23
Publication date : June 2010
Dimensions : 198mm X 130mm X 17mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 22.99
Availability date : July 2010
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Product Type : books

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Author : Tove Jansson
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 839.7374
Reading Level : very good
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Pages : 224
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Translator : Silvester Mazzarella
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9780954899585

Description

This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray when a disconcerting young boy arrives; an artist returns to an old flat to discover that her life has been eerily usurped. Philosophical and profound, but with the deceptive lightness that is her hallmark, Travelling Light is guaranteed to surprise and transport.

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Introduced by Ali Smith Another perfect holiday read from the author of the bestselling The Summer Book

Author description

Tove Jansson, writer and artist (1914-2001) first published her Moomin stories for children in England sixty years ago. They have remained in print in the UK ever since. From 1968, however, she turned her attention to writing for adults. Her bestselling novel, 'The Summer Book', is a modern Scandinavian classic. 'Travelling Light' was published fifteen years later.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.