I dream of islands every night
Emma Hogan: Letters from Tove, 24 September 2020
Letters from Tove
by Tove Jansson, translated by Sarah Death.
Sort of Books, 496 pp., £12.99, October,978 1 908745 84 2 Show More
by Tove Jansson, translated by Sarah Death.
Sort of Books, 496 pp., £12.99, October,
“... Towards the end of her life, Tove Jansson wrote a novel about two women in love. In Fair Play, Mari and Jonna, two artists, live together but apart. They have separate studios, connected by a corridor. They eat dinner in silence, their books propped up next to their plates. Each night they watch a film, often by a well-known director – Truffaut, Bergman, Visconti, Renoir, Wilder – but sometimes they watch a B-Western in which men are ‘unswervingly honourable to one another’ and which ends with the sound of horns and a performance of ‘My Darling Clementine ... ”