Kingsley Hart Knihy

Je november. Prší. Leto je preč. Niektorí tvorčekovia zatúžia po teple domova a vyberú sa do Mumintrollovho domčeka. Dom je však prázdny. Hemul, bojazlivá Filifionka, osamelý homko, prastarý Sváčko a pekná Mimla a neskôr aj Snusmumrik sa rozhodnú v dome na Muminovcov počkať. Ako to dopadne, keď sa zídu na jednom mieste také rôzne povahy? Návštevníci sa nevedia Muminovskej rodinky dočkať, a tak sa vyberú späť do svojich domovov a vytúženej samoty. Ale v dome predsa niekto zostane a čaká...

Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith, and there are afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.The Winter Book features thirteen stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) along with seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.