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The listener

?A unique and authentic voice that speaks to the reader across time and culture, heart to heart.' Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Aunt Gerda? the good listener? fears the encroaching forgetfulness of old age. Her solution is to create an artwork that will record and, inevitably, betray the secrets long confided in her. So begins Jansson's short story debut, a tour de force of scalpel-sharp narration that takes us from a disquieting homage to the artist Edward Gorey, to perfect evocations of childhood innocence and recklessness, to a city ravaged by storms, or the slow halting thaw of spr.

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  • "?A unique and authentic voice that speaks to the reader across time and culture, heart to heart.' Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Aunt Gerda? the good listener? fears the encroaching forgetfulness of old age. Her solution is to create an artwork that will record and, inevitably, betray the secrets long confided in her. So begins Jansson's short story debut, a tour de force of scalpel-sharp narration that takes us from a disquieting homage to the artist Edward Gorey, to perfect evocations of childhood innocence and recklessness, to a city ravaged by storms, or the slow halting thaw of spr."@en
  • "In her first ever story collection, Jansson revealed the clarity of vision and light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. From the good listener who begins to betray the secrets confided to her, to vignettes of a city storm or the slow halting of spring, these stories are gifts of originality and depth."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Noveller"@sv

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  • "Lyssnerskan Noveller"
  • "The listener"@en
  • "Lynssnerskan : noveller"
  • "Lyssnerkan : noveller"
  • "Den lyttende noveller"
  • "Den lyttende : noveller"
  • "Den lyttende : noveller ; overs. av Gunnel Malmström"
  • "The Listener"@en
  • "Lyssnerskan : noveller"@sv
  • "Lyssnerskan : noveller"
  • "Kuuntelija [Suomentanut: Kristina Kivivuori]"
  • "Lyssnerskan. Noveller"
  • "Lyssnerskan : Noveller"
  • "Kuuntelija"
  • "Kuuntelija"@fi
  • "Lyssnerskan"@en
  • "Lyssnerskan"

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