Summer book

In this book, in addition to the only Touva Jansson Roman “The City of the Sun” about the serene old age on the coast and the piercing story “Summer Book” about a girl who lost her mother, as well as the works of short stories and novels already known to the Russian reader, and works first translated into Russian . The northern atmosphere of diary “notes from the island”, dedicated to building a house on Klovkharun and life there, creates the effect of the presence on the island, pierced by the winds of the Gulf of Finland and filled with screaming, which are unceremoniously invaded by settlers. And under the general heading “Boulevard and other texts” lies a number of early short stories and essays Jansson, published in periodicals in different years of its creative activity. In them, Tuva tells what to be a children"s writer, reflects on painting and criticizes the architecture that makes a person unhappy.
And through all this variety of texts, the depth and character of the famous writer fully reveals