{"product_id":"fair-play-paperback-1","title":"Fair Play - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTove Jansson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eThomas Teal\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFair Play\u003c\/i\u003e is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they've never really stopped taking each other by surprise. \u003ci\u003eFair Play \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Book\u003c\/i\u003e), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTove Jansson \u003c\/b\u003e(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 child and set out from an early age to be an artist. Her first illustration was published when she was fifteen years old; four years later a picture book appeared under a pseudonym. After attending art schools in both Stockholm and Paris, she returned to Helsinki, where in the 1940s and '50s she won acclaim for her paintings and murals. From 1929 until 1953 Jansson drew humorous illustrations and political cartoons for the left-leaning anti-Fascist Finnish-Swedish magazine \u003ci\u003eGarm\u003c\/i\u003e, and it was there that what was to become Jansson's most famous creation, Moomintroll, a hippopotamus-like character with a dreamy disposition, made his first appearance. Jansson went on to write about the adventures of Moomintroll, the Moomin family, and their curious friends in a long-running comic strip and in a series of books for children that have been translated throughout the world, inspiring films, several television series, an opera, and theme parks in Finland and Japan. Jansson also wrote eleven novels and short story collections for adults, including \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Book \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe True Deceiver\u003c\/i\u003e (both available as NYRB Classics). In 1994 she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy. Jansson and her companion, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, continued to live part-time in a cottage on the remote outer edge of the Finnish archipelago until 1991\u003cb\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thomas Teal has translated Tove Jansson's \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSun City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFair Play\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he was awarded the Bernard Shaw Prize for translation from the Swedish for the years 2007-2009.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ali Smith is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novel \u003ci\u003eHotel World\u003c\/i\u003e, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2001, and \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.99 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701181780031,"sku":"9781590173787","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d919ef6c82ecbd0b629c3bc2937f0d3d.webp?v=1765019654","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/fair-play-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}