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A Song for Windows (last copy)

by Takashi Homma

Photographs: Takashi Homma

Text: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Libraryman

40 pages

Year: 2016

ISBN: 9789188113030

Price: 125 €

Comments: Hardcover, board book, first edition of 500, 19 × 27 cm

Inspired by the short documentary Haru, yksinäisten saari (Haru, the Island of the Solitary) from 1998, Takashi Homma (b. 1962, Japanese) traveled from his hometown of Tokyo, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, to the remote island of Klovharun, located in the Pellinki archipelago, Finland. There he documented the primitive island and its single cabin where Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist Tove Jansson (author of the Moomin book series for children) and her life companion, Finnish illustrator Tuulikki Pietilä, spent nearly a quarter century of summers together. This publication - a board book with rounded edges - pays homage to the late author. All texts are written by Tove Jansson, taken from The Summer Book, first published in 1972.

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A Song for Windows (last copy)

by Takashi Homma

Photographs: Takashi Homma

Text: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Libraryman

40 pages

Year: 2016

ISBN: 9789188113030

Price: 125 €

Comments: Hardcover, board book, first edition of 500, 19 × 27 cm

Inspired by the short documentary Haru, yksinäisten saari (Haru, the Island of the Solitary) from 1998, Takashi Homma (b. 1962, Japanese) traveled from his hometown of Tokyo, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, to the remote island of Klovharun, located in the Pellinki archipelago, Finland. There he documented the primitive island and its single cabin where Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist Tove Jansson (author of the Moomin book series for children) and her life companion, Finnish illustrator Tuulikki Pietilä, spent nearly a quarter century of summers together. This publication - a board book with rounded edges - pays homage to the late author. All texts are written by Tove Jansson, taken from The Summer Book, first published in 1972.

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