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The Listener by Tove Jansson (view source)
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|date=June 2014
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|summary=Tove Jansson's first short story collection published some 43 years ago in Swedish has lost none of its sparkle. Thomas Teal's first ever English translation for Sort Of Books, is a sheer delight. The cold and isolation inherent in the stories doesn't detract from the overall uplifting character of the telling.
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Until very recently Jansson was probably only known in the English-speaking world for her Moomin stories. Then along came ''Sort of'' books and their wonderful translators, foremost among them: Thomas Teal. And we started to understand what it was about the woman…