by Tove Jansson
A small & very precious book. Heartfelt, tender, fiery, inquisitive. For everyone - especially every creative person - who wants to grow old with their best friends.I don't know Tove Jansson except as a writer of short stories and she is absolutely worth getting to know this way. If you're one of my...
bookshelves: paper-read, published-1989, translation, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, glbt, finland, lit-richer, winter-20152016, art-forms, islands, lit-crit, cult-yah Read from June 21, 2006 to February 07, 2016 Description: Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelat...
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 29 November 2013 Fair Play is a series of seventeen seemingly unimportant episodes which are mainly set at the Baltic Sea, presumably Helsinki and one of the small islands off the Finnish coast respectively, and which allow a glimpse into...
There's a lot left to interpretation in the sparseness of this prose. Sort of like prose poems but not at all. -“To hell with goals,” Mari said. “What I’m talking about is desire, about having to.” “Having to what?” “I think you know.” "And then what? Those pictures. They drown. They drown and get l...
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