Tove Jansson

Fair-play

February 21, 2019
Novel
120 pages
128 × 190 mm
16 €
9782924898192
978-2-9248-9819-2
Translated from Swedish (Finland) by Agneta Segol
																Tove Jansson, Fair-play
																Tove Jansson, Fair-play

The novel Fair-play by Tove Jansson, a great feminist figure celebrated throughout the world, is finally available in French.

Jonna and Mari, two artists and lifelong partners, share the top floor of a building in the port of Helsinki. Sharing coffee and cigarettes, the two women paint, write, discuss art and life, get passionate about cinema, argue, laugh heartily, travel, receive, remember the past and pick the future, one day at a time. Following in the footsteps of the Book of a Summer, Fair-play is one of the last books by the great Tove Jansson, in which the author combines the three passions of her life—work, love and freedom—with a mischievous melancholy. In the twilight of her work, Tove Jansson offers a profound lesson of youth, that of always making her life a work of art.

The author

Known throughout the world for her early work and in particular her famous Moomins, the Swedish-speaking Finn Tove Jansson (1914-2001) created a literary work of exceptional quality. Author, painter, illustrator and feminist, Tove Jansson is one of the great world female figures of the 20th century.

Press

“One of those rare stories capable of making the reader feel in symbiosis with the author.”

Irish Time.
February 21, 2019
Novel
120 pages
128 × 190 mm
16 €
9782924898192
978-2-9248-9819-2
Translated from Swedish (Finland) by Agneta Segol