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Travelling Light
by Tove Jansson
“The precariousness of travel is revealed in this unnerving new collection of stories.”
Introduced by Ali Smith
Translated from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella |
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 Translated into English for the first time, Travelling Light takes us into new Tove Jansson territory.
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 by an oddly intrusive child; an artist returns from abroad to discover that her past has been eerily usurped.
With the deceptively light prose that is her hallmark, Tove Jansson reveals to us the precariousness of a journey – the unease we feel at being placed outside of our millieu, the restlessness and shadows that intrude upon a summer. |
The writer and artist TOVE JANSSON (1914–2001) is best known as the creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in English sixty years ago and have remained in print since.
However, in her fifties she turned her attention to writing for adults, producing a dozen novels and story collections, including the classic, bestselling The Summer Book.
Travelling Light, written in Swedish in1987, is published for the first time in English. Sort Of Books have also published The Summer Book, A Winter Book, Fair Play and The True Deceiver. |
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A brilliant new collection of stories, gripping and unnerving.
Introduced by Ali Smith.
First ever publication in English, in a translation by Silvester Mazzarella. |
PRAISE FOR TOVE JANSSON'S PREVIOUS NOVELS |
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 “THE SUMMER BOOK: A marvellously uplifting read, full of gentle humour and wisdom. It deserves to be read not only for the rare beauty of its writing but for the understanding that life, like summer, is precious.” The Daily Telegraph
“A WINTER BOOK: A Winter Book offers what proper books so peerlessly can – the sense of a unique and authentic voice that speaks to the reader across time and culture, heart to heart.” Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
“FAIR PLAY: One of those rare stories capable of making the reader feel at one with the writer.” Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
“THE TRUE DECEIVER: The most beautiful and satisfying novel I have read this year.” Ursula K Le Guin, The Guardian |
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Pub date: July 6th 2010
Price: £7.99
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Extent: 208pp
Size: B-format deluxe |
ISBN: 978-0-95489-958-5 Format: Original paperback |
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