ARGONAUT BOOKS

Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this translated selection provides a showcase of Tove Jansson's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. Reviews Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.Ali SmithThese stories show a side of (Tove Jansson) that may be new to some British readers, who perhaps think of her, if at all, as a writer of charming stories for children. They are as tough as good rope, these stories, as smooth and odd and beautiful as sea-worn driftwood, as full of...Read More