num_pages: 127
description: Winner of the 2009 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 they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.
language: English
title: Fair Play
titlecomplete: Fair Play
characters: Jonna, Mari
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Novels, 20th Century, Novella, Finnish Literature, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 4924
places: Phoenix, Arizona, Finland
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Bernard Shaw Prize
category: Thomas Teal, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Sort of Books