?A unique and authentic voice that speaks to the reader across time and culture, heart to heart.' Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Aunt Gerda ? the good listener ? fears the encroaching forgetfulness of old age. Her solution is to create an artwork...
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?A unique and authentic voice that speaks to the reader across time and culture, heart to heart.' Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Aunt Gerda ? the good listener ? fears the encroaching forgetfulness of old age. Her solution is to create an artwork that will record and, inevitably, betray the secrets long confided in her. So begins Jansson's short story debut, a tour de force of scalpel-sharp narration that takes us from a disquieting homage to the artist Edward Gorey, to perfect evocations of childhood innocence and recklessness, to a city ravaged by storms, or the slow halting thaw of spring
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; The Listener; Unloading Sand; The Birthday Party; The Sleeping Man; Black-White; Letters to an Idol; A Love Story; The Other; In Spring; The Silent Room; The Storm; Grey Duchesse; Proposal for a Preface; The Wolf; The Rain; Blasting; Lucio's Friends; The Squirrel; Also by Tove Jansson; Copyright
