Synopsis

What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, "Fair Play" portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In the generosity and respect they show each other and the many small shifts they make to accommodate each other's creativity we are shown a relationship both heartening and truly progressive. "so what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something philosophically calm - and discreetly radical. At first sight it looks autobiographical. Like everything Jansson wrote, it's much more than it seems ...

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托芙·揚鬆（Tove Jansson，1914—2001），芬蘭著名兒童文學作傢、畫傢。她在芬蘭兒童文學史乃至世界兒童文學史上都是一個響當當的名字。因為其巨大的文學藝術成就，揚鬆在1966年獲得瞭素有“小諾貝爾奬”之稱的世界兒童文學的最高奬——國際安徒生奬。這位藝術界的女性之所以屢獲殊榮，是因為她的作品感動瞭無數人，她告訴人們：永遠，永遠，讓生命歸於和平與安靜，還靈魂以自由和輕鬆。代錶作有“姆咪榖”係列、《公平競爭》《真誠的騙子》《輕裝旅行》等。