Truthful Play by Tove Jansson, translated from Swedish by Thomas Teal
Tove Jansson is greatest recognized for her Moomin kids’s books, however she additionally wrote grownup novels, like this one. Truthful Play, revealed in 1989, is about Mari and Jonna, a author and artist who’ve lived collectively for many years. This home, slice-of-life story is impressed by her relationship along with her associate Tuulikki Pietilä, aka Tooti, whom she lived with for 45 years. It’s a comfy “celebration of on a regular basis queerness.”
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