A New York Review Books OriginalWinner of the Bernard Shaw Prize for TranslationFair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told a revelatory depiction of contentment hard-won and exhilarating Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building their studios connected by a long attic passageway They have argued worked and laughed together for decades Yet theyrsquove never really stopped taking each other by surprise Fair Play shows us Mari and Jonarsquos intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns critique each otherrsquos work spend time on a solitary island recognizable to readers of Janssonrsquos The Summer Book travel through the American Southwest and turn life into nothing less than art.
