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.
Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. Only the very finest art can show us so many shades of psychological nuance, yet make them visible with such clarity.” -Damion Searls, Harper’sįair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. “Jansson reveals the ambiguities in every encounter. “This novel is about creativity from the very start-about how to take a day.and make it really new and fresh, no matter what age you are, what life you’re in.” -Ali Smith, From the Introduction Fair Play by Tove Jansson / ISBN 9781590173787 / paperback from New York Review of Books Classics
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