The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)

Books are OK. But shipment that was aimed to my home address arrived to distribution center far from home. BIG nuisance. cost a good seller two stars.

I love this book of short stories. Each was perfect. Themes were isolation, aging, nature, and the little obsessions we develop when alone for an extended time.

This is my first contact with the work of Tove Jansson and I'm hooked. Her ability to convey the seemingly mundane aspects of life yet always with an undercurrent of menace makes each story a thrill

A classic, with a lucid elegant prose style and unerring human psychology.

Excellent writer! Short stories are hard to write and this author searches for the right expressions.

The stories are darker than I expected, but oh what writing!

The narrative is uneven and the characters are not particularly engaging. Hard to connect with.

OK

Really enjoying these stories

Tove Jansson is a wonderful writer. The twenty-six stories in this book are varied and captivating. Jansson's writing is spare and a bit strange and she conjures up the worlds of lonely people in rural settings who are facing challenges from old age, loneliness, loneliness or lack of purpose. This collection, like everything Jansson has written, is well worth reading.