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Travelling Light

by Tove Jansson · 1987

Translated into English for the first time, Travelling Light takes us into new Tove Jansson territory. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with… more

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Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine. - An Eightieth Birthday
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My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.
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Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly what you're going to say. Different kinds of solitude. Enforced solitude and voluntary solitude.' 'Quite,' said Viktoria. 'There's no need to go into it further. But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?
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It looks as if neither of us will ever convince the other. But do we need to?" "No, the other person only needs to listen and understand." "I can accept that." - The Hothouse
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But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?
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What is constantly changing is superior to what is static. The Hothouse
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I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. - An Eightieth Birthday
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Translated into English for the first time, Travelling Light takes us into new Tove Jansson territory.

A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray by an oddly intrusive child; an artist returns from abroad to discover that her past has been eerily usurped.

With the deceptively light prose that is her hallmark, Tove Jansson reveals to us the precariousness of a journey – the unease we feel at being placed outside of our millieu, the restlessness and shadows that intrude upon a summer.

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First published
1987
Genre
Fiction
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3.77 (3k ratings)

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