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The true deceiver : a novel / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal ; introduced by Ali Smith.

Title
The true deceiver : a novel / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal ; introduced by Ali Smith.
Author
Jansson, Tove
Publication
London : Sort Of Books, 2009.

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Description
201 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
Summary
Set in a Swedish hamlet in the winter snows. A young woman inveigles herself into the life of an elderly children's illustrator who lives alone in the woods. But why is she doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? By the time the snow thaws both their lives have changed irrevocably.
Uniform Title
Ärliga bedragaren. English
Alternative Title
Ärliga bedragaren.
Subject
  • Deception > Fiction
  • Interpersonal relations > Fiction
  • Recluses > Fiction
  • Country life > Fiction
  • Winter > Fiction
  • Sweden > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Fiction
  • Psychological fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780954899578 (pbk.)
  • 0954899571 (pbk.)
OCLC
241036886
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library