Letters from Klara
They said their goodbyes in the front hall, with an affection that was perfectly genuine but that committed them to nothing.
Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson’s last original collection of short stories. The rich seam that is Jansson’s adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories (the last containing all new stories), written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame.
In these light-footed, beautifully crafted yet disquieting stories, Jansson tells of discomfiting encounters, unlooked for connections and moments of isolation that span generations and decades. Whether writing from the perspective of a bewildered young artist, a resilient child or an irascible elderly correspondent, Letters From Klara proves yet again her mastery of this literary form.
The collection contains these short stories:
Letters from Klara
Robert
In August
The Lily Pond
The Train Trip
Party Games
Pirate Rum
About Summer
The Pictures
Premonitions
Emmelina
My Friend Karin
A Trip to the Riviera
Letters From Klara on the publisher Sort of Books’ website.
The book was first published in Swedish as Brev från Klara in 1991 and was translated into English in 2017.