Kati in Italy by Astrid Lindgren. Short summary

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Jan wants to marry Katya, but the heroine is unsure about this decision. She asks to be given a year to think it over and leaves for Italy with her friend, where she meets her destiny.

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Katya’s friend Yan wants to marry her, but the heroine doubts the correctness of this decision. She does not like the fact that Jan wants to make a different person out of her.
When she laughs, he thinks she is stupid, but at the same time he does not like it when she is too serious. Kati asks her fiancé to give her a year to think about it.

After he agrees, the girl persuades her friend Eva to move in with her. The heroines win 3,000 crowns. They want to spend the money on a trip to Italy, which does not please Jan, who is afraid of losing Katya.

The girls leave for Italy, where they experience many adventures. While in Venice, Kati meets Lennart Sundman from Stockholm. She really liked the new acquaintance. Soon they go on a gondola ride together. On the square in the crowd, the young people lose each other and cannot find each other again.

Kati believes that Lennart is her true love. She fears that she has lost him forever. She writes a letter to Jan informing him of her breakup.