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The True Deceiver (1982)

by Tove Jansson(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1590173295 (ISBN13: 9781590173299)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

NYRB Classics

review 1: I find the way Tove Jansson writes about space in The True Deceiver pretty much irresistible. Not only space in a physical sense - the close confines of the house her two main characters share for the winter - but also space in a more psychological sense; the space between people. The way people encroach on each other's space, get on each other's nerves. The longing for company we all feel...and, at the same time, the drive to be alone. People are infinitely complicated things. Jansson has a way of taking all of these little complications, and bringing them out into the light.
review 2: I don't know whether I understood the characters in this book fully or their actions, but that's why I liked it. Tove Jansson creates people that are ice cold and slippery, as c... morehangeable as the winter weather, they shift and morph around each other, each person buffeted by the actions of those around them. With a deceptively simple story the characters have an iceberg-like quality; their true motives buried somewhere deep beneath the ice. And that's enough wintery metaphors from me. less

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