# The True Deceiver

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- Book: [The True Deceiver](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-jansson/the-true-deceiver) ([The True Deceiver.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-jansson/the-true-deceiver.md))
- Authors: [Tove Jansson](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-jansson), [Ali Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith), [Thomas Teal](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-teal)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-329-9
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2009-12-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A New York Review Books OriginalWinner of the Best Translated Book AwardDeception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving...