Name: Sun City
SKU: 59269859
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Author: Tove Jansson
ISBN: 9781681378657

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tove Jansson

Translated by

Thomas Teal

Publisher

New York Review Of Books

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781681378657

Synopsis "Sun City"

From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida. In The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn again and again to the everyday life of the aged. Not as a group apart but as full-blooded people with as many jealousies, urges, and joys as any other group. It's no wonder that in her travels through America in the 1970s she became fascinated with what was then a particularly American institution, the retirement home, where older people live in their particular tightly knit worlds. In Sun City, Jansson depicts these worlds in a group portrait of residents and employees at the Berkeley Arms in St. Petersburg, Florida. As the narrative moves from character to character, so the characters move through an America riven by cultural divides, facing the death of its dream. The Berkeley Arms's newest resident finds a place among the rocking chairs and endless chatter on the veranda, while other residents long for past glories, mourning their losses and killing time. Meanwhile one of their attendants, Bounty Joe, is eagerly awaiting a letter, or even just a postcard, alerting him to the imminent return of Jesus Christ. "Nobody's normal anymore," as the bartender says, "not the old geezers and not the newborn kids."

Tove Jansson

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Tove Jansson (1914-2001) fue una escritora y artista finlandesa cuyos libros ilustrados para niños y ficción para adultos se han hecho famosos en todo el mundo. Es conocida principalmente por ser la creadora de los cuentos infantiles de los Mumin, así como de las tiras cómicas y los libros ilustrados que le siguieron, y por El libro de verano , una novela considerada un clásico de la ficción nórdica. Sin embargo, destacó en diversas disciplinas literarias y artísticas, alcanzando fama temprana como una joven y prometedora pintora y dibujante, y, posteriormente, como autora de novelas, cuentos, poemas y obras de teatro para radio y teatro. Incluso escribió canciones.

El enfoque de Tove Jansson hacia el trabajo, al igual que su enfoque hacia la vida, era sincero y vital. Buscaba la originalidad y la frescura, creando prosa e imágenes llenas de color, con talento para la narración y valores humanos e inclusivos. Su amor por la naturaleza es una constante, especialmente por el mar que rodeaba la isla finlandesa donde pasaba los veranos.

Tove Marika Jansson nació el 9 de agosto de 1914 y murió el 27 de junio de 2001. Su tumba se encuentra en el cementerio de Hietaniemi en Helsinki, Finlandia.

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