“There is no silence like sitting in a fog at sea and listening,” writes Tove Jansson in her newly-translated story collection Fair Play. She’s a great writer, and this review is no exception: Larissa is one of our top reviewers generally-but not always-writing about Scandinavian lit. But seriously, she sounds fascinating, especially as one of the few Swedish-speaking Finns who have made their way into English. I’ve been meaning to find time to read Jansson’s books for a while now, and every review we post makes me more and more interested. NYRB has been slowly issuing Tove Jansson’s ‘adult’ books over the past few years, starting with The Summer Book followed by The True Deceiver, which made the 2011 BTBA fiction longlist. And yes, I know telling time by a sporting tournament is a sign of some sort of disorder. (Or in NCAA time: The day of the “first” round of the tournament, which for once, could be cool. The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Larissa Kyzer on Tove Jansson’s Fair Play, which was translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and officially comes out from NYRB Classics next Tuesday.
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