Sophia Jansson: Three Islands, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Sophia Jansson was the young girl who inspired the bohemian idyll in her aunt Tove Jansson's classic novel, The Summer Book . But there was an absence that was neither written nor spoken about: her mother, Nita, who died when she was six.

In this startling memoir, Jansson uncovers her mother's short and volatile life, and the traumas passed across generations in impoverished, pre-war Finland. Written with a rare transparency and tenderness, she charts a course through three significant islands - Tonga, the South Sea island to which her father Lars and Tove dreamt
of emigrating; Ibiza, where her parents attempted family life; and the tiny island in the gulf of Finland that has provided a lifelong summer home.