The True Deceiver - Paperback
by Tove Jansson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tove Jansson, Ali Smith (Introduction by), Thomas Teal (Translator)Series:New York Review Books (Paperback)Publish date:2009-12-08Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173299ISBN-10:1590173295UPC:9781590173299Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Thrillers, Psychological, WomenAward:2011 Best Translated Book Award Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.04 x 4.98 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCHFR3TZ7M
The True Deceiver
A New York Review Books Original
Winner of the Best Translated Book Award
Deception--the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others--is the subject of this, Tove Jansson's most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude...
Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173299ISBN-10:1590173295UPC:9781590173299Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Thrillers, Psychological, WomenAward:2011 Best Translated Book Award Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.04 x 4.98 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCHFR3TZ7M
Tove Jansson (1914-2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Winters were spent in the family's art-filled studio and summers in a fisherman's cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a setting that would later figure in Jansson's writing for adults and children. Jansson loved books as a...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Awards
🏆 2011 Best Translated Book Award Winner - Fiction Award
Contributor(s)
Tove Jansson, Ali Smith (Introduction by), Thomas Teal (Translator)
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