![]() The incidents are strung together like beads on a thread, each one strong and clear. They find a dead duck, entertain various guests, indulge in a bit of breaking and entering on a nearby island, endure both a heat wave and a summer storm, create a new Venice and exorcise an ancient bathrobe of its demons. The young girl and the old woman lie down on the forest moss side-by-side so they can inspect the undergrowth. Her father features here, but only in the background, a character who looms by absence, always working, or popping off on the boat to do some shopping, and so “The Summer Book” centers on the adventures that Sophia enjoys, and sometimes doesn’t, with her grandmother. “The Summer Book” tells the story of Sophia, a young girl who spends summers with her family on one of the islands in the archipelago. ![]() Everything was fine, and yet everything was shadowed by a great sadness,” Jansson writes, with typical clarity, mingling bitter and sweet. No-one came to visit and there was no mail. A lot of lumber drifted by and was salvaged. “The island was blessed with mild night rain. ![]()
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