Travelling Light (20 page)

Travelling Light
(
Resa Med Lätt Bagag
e) © Tove Jansson 1987 First published by Schildts Förlags Ab, Finland. All rights reserved English translation © Silvester Mazzarella and Sort Of Books 2010 Introduction © Ali Smith 2010
Ali Smith and Thomas Teal provided generous help with the translation.

 

Thanks to Sofia Jansson for her encouragement and advice.

 

The illustrations on p.1 and p.208 are © Tove Jansson, 1987; the photo on p.17 is © Tove Jansson family archive.

 

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher except for the quotation of brief passages in reviews.

 

This English translation first published in 2010 by Sort Of Books, PO Box 18678, London NW3 2FL.

 

Typeset in Goudy and GillSans to a design by Henry Iles.
Printed in Italy by Legoprint.

 

Sort of Books gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange 

 

 

 

208pp.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

 

Print ISBN 978–0-9548995–8–5
ePub ISBN 978–1–908745–21–7