A strange, compelling fable about Europe, capitalism and the human heart. Vatanescu, an impoverished construction worker, wants a future for himself and a pair of football boots for his son. So he decides to head north to a cold, dark country where there is money to be made...
Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith, and there are afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.The Winter Book features thirteen stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) along with seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.
"El clásico que tienes en tus manos es Crimen y castigo, del escritor ruso Fedor Dostoievski. Es uno más de sus entrañables aportes literarios, cuyos protagonistas se caracterizan por vivir con intensidad sus propias contradicciones. El estudiante ruso Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov asesina a mansalva a la anciana prestamista Alena Ivanova para robarle. Transcurre el caluroso verano moscovita, y Rodion pasa hambre y sed pues su madre y hermana--que con sumo trabajo sostienen sus estudios--se han visto en dificultades para enviarle algunos rublos. Desesperado, el joven fragua su crimen, sabedor de que la vieja aquella posee una fortuna en joyas y dinero producto de la despiadada usura. La fuerza del destino le depara sorpresas y lo coloca en una violenta y paradójica situación. Al mismo tiempo, su corazón es tocado por las fuerzas del amor y la conciencia, llevando la trama a un desenlace inesperado y ejemplar en el que el crimen del joven no puede quedar sin castigo."--
The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with their guilt.