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Original title Rent spel Publication date 1989 | 4/5 Goodreads Language Swedish Originally published 1989 Country Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Works by Tove Jansson A Winter Book, The Listener, The True Deceiver, Sculptor's Daughter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fair Play (in the original Swedish Rent spel) is a novel by Finnish author Tove Jansson, first published in 1989.
Plot
The novel portrays the close friendship between two women doing artistic work, Jonna and Mari, who live in separate apartments in the same house. They are in many ways quite different, but maybe because of this they are able to complete each other. It is about give and take, compromises and communication, and how the relationship survives even if it changes when the people do.
Many chapters in the book are written such that they can be read stand-alone, and a few have been republished in the short story collection A Winter Book.
References
Fair Play (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA