Review: Fair Play

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Fair PlayFair Play by Tove Jansson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A different way of looking at love, through the small and normal things, the little idiosyncrasies, difficulties and compromises of a relationship between two older, temperamental persons. Though at the beginning of the book the relationship between Mari and Jonna might appear strangely detached, it doesn’t take much to understand the complexity and the unseen between the words and to warm up to their rapport.

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Review: The Summer Book

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The Summer BookThe Summer Book by Tove Jansson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The wonderful story of a small child and her grandmother, living together a long summer on an isolated island, learning to know and adjust to each other. Tove Jansson’s style is, at least in this translation, short and to the point, quite matter of fact, and that oddly contributes to make this collection of short vignettes even more poetic in its simplicity.

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