An NYRB Classics Original  Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon...

A New York Review Books OriginalWinner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for TranslationTwo women, both artists, no longer young, live and work on opposite sides of a large apartment building, their studios connected by an attic passagew...

Like the clear, brilliantly blue sky that hangs over the small island on which it’s set, The Summer Book is intense, fleeting, and perfect. Tove Jansson’s slender novel is a season told in episodes in the lives a six-year-...