Recommendations from our site
“I loved Tove Jansson as a child. Then, when I read this biography, I realized that actually the Moomins started as Jansson’s political signature. When Hitler was annexing parts of Europe, she was drawing rude cartoons of him and signing them with a little Moomin…Her Moomin books are about political expression and not just domestic expression.” Read more...
Sue Prideaux, Biographer
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Young Rembrandt
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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words
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