<p>A New York Review Books Original</p><p> </p><p>Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation</p><p> </p><p><i>Fair Play</i> is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. <br><br> 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. <i>Fair Play </i>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 <i>The Summer Book</i>), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art. </p><p> </p>