04663cam a2200445 4500 232055676 TxAuBib 20150601120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781590176849 1590176847 B0092FQX50 Amazon 2d94c67a-252b-4455-8a1d-b32008b6c8f0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1046895 OverDrive (Product ID) 86733 1046895 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jansson, Tove. The True Deceiver [Libby eBook]. New York Review Books, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 424kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Deception--the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others--is the subject of this, Tove Jansson's most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate. Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of doors. The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales. This year everybody's talking about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives with her simpleminded brother and a dog she refuses to name. She has no use for the white lies that smooth social intercourse, and she can see straight to the core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children's book illustrator, appears to be Katri's opposite: a respected member of the village, if an aloof one. Anna lives in a large empty house, venturing out in the spring to paint exquisitely detailed forest scenes. But Anna has something Katri wants, and to get it Katri will take control of Anna's life and livelihood. By the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most cherished illusions.. "Her description is unhurried, accurate and vivid, an artist's vision... The sentences are beautiful in structure, movement and cadence. They have inevitable rightness. And this is a translation! Thomas Teal deserves to have his name on the title page with Jansson's: he has worked the true translator's miracle....the most beautiful and satisfying novel I have read this year.". HTML:Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian. "Tove Jansson is a great, engaging talent -- a serious, complex, occasionally macabre novelist as well as a major and versatile painter who has worked for fifty years in the artistic mainstream. In Scandinavia, she is regarded as a treasure. As we come better to understand her achievement, we honor her likewise.". HTML:Horn Book. HTML:"...a dark companion to her glowing The Summer Book. Here the setting is winter, and the almost Highsmithian subject concerns a woman who inveigles herself into the life of a famous, and rich, writer. Jansson's writing is, as always, understated yet acute and thrilling.". HTML:Los Angeles Times. HTML:"A perfectly constructed book about truth and deceit, and deceiving through truth, it's obvious why this book won the Best Translated Book Award in 2011. And it's the perfect accompaniment to reading all of Jansson's Moomin books.". HTML:Publishers Weekly. "I loved this book. It's cool in both senses of the word, understated yet exciting, and with a tension that keeps you reading. I felt transported to that remote region of Sweden and when I finished it I read it all over again. The characters still haunt me.". Ruth Rendell. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. Smith, Alice Josephine. Teal, Thomas. http://www.ntexlibrariesonthego.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=2d94c67a-252b-4455-8a1d-b32008b6c8f0 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2D94C67A-252B-4455-8A1D-B32008B6C8F0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2D94C67A-252B-4455-8A1D-B32008B6C8F0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2D94C67A-252B-4455-8A1D-B32008B6C8F0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR