{"product_id":"9781590177938","title":"The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Tove Jansson was a master of  brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small  settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Book\u003c\/i\u003e and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about  the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she  turned again and again to the short story. \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Who Borrowed Memories\u003c\/i\u003e is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany  of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island  solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic impulse: in “The  Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is  thrown by a visitor, in “The Summer Child” an unlovable boy is marooned  along with his lively host family, in “The Cartoonist” an artist takes  over a comic strip that has run for decades, and in “The Doll’s House” a  man’s hobby threatens to overwhelm his life. Others explore unexpected  territory: “Shopping” has a post-apocalyptic setting, “The Locomotive”  centers on a railway-obsessed loner with murderous fantasies, and “The  Woman Who Borrowed Memories” presents a case of disturbing transference.  Unsentimental, yet always humane, Jansson’s stories complement and  enlarge our understanding of a singular figure in world literature.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169752531184,"sku":"9781590177938","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177938_p0.jpg?v=1763805951","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177938","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}