The true deceiver
Original title: Den ärliga bedragaren
Translated by Yonca Soy Mete first published 1982 Siren Yayınları, 2020 paperback 152 pages
New York Review Books classics
Set in a Swedish hamlet in the winter snows. A young woman inveigles herself into the life of an elderly children's illustrator who lives alone in the woods. But why is she doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? By the time the snow thaws both their lives have changed irrevocably.
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