The True Deceiver The True Deceiver

The True Deceiver

Tove Jansson and Others
    • 3.8 • 12 Ratings
    • $10.99
    • $10.99

Publisher Description

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 and community, art and life, love and hate. 

Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of doors. The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales. This year everybody’s talking about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives with her simpleminded brother and a dog she refuses to name. She has no use for the white lies that smooth social intercourse, and she can see straight to the core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children’s book illustrator, appears to be Katri’s opposite: a respected member of the village, if an aloof one. Anna lives in a large empty house, venturing out in the spring to paint exquisitely detailed forest scenes. But Anna has something Katri wants, and to get it Katri will take control of Anna’s life and livelihood. By the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most cherished illusions.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2009
December 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
629.9
KB

Customer Reviews

retneva ,

a slow moving train wreck

leading nowhere. i guess it had a happy ending sort off.

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