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by Tove Jansson (Author, Illustrator), K. Hart (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin Books; New edition edition (28 Mar 1974)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140306722
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140306729
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars An adult children's book for adults and children, 14 Sep 1999
By A Customer
Most avid readers of 'children's books' know that the entire category can be a bit of a misnomer, and this is especially true of 'Moominpappa at Sea'. In its own subtle way, this novel is a challenge to conventional ideas about children and childhood.

It's not an especially happy book, however. You could even go so far as to describe it as a journey inside depression. This might come as a slight shock to readers of previous Finn Family Moomintroll books, since they are so suffused with a happy-go-lucky sense of life as an extraordinary adventure full of unexpected twists and turns.

Nonetheless, in this novel (the last of all the Moomin books), life for the Moomin family takes a turn for the worse. Moominpappa - ever an eccentric and wayward chap - autocratically decides to relocate his entire family to a lighthouse on a remote island. But the island turns out to be an extremely lonely place, and as a result, the Moomin family slowly drifts apart in strange ways.

It is a rare book - be it marketed at adults or children - which is able to convey so intangible a concept as depression without simplifying it. 'Moominpappa at sea', with its beautiful and haunting sense of place, is a novel about just that - being at sea. Yet Tove Jansson, with her imaginative and poetic grasp of emotional experience, somehow pulls it off.

This is ultimately what makes it an uplifting read rather than a sad one. For although the Moomin family don't have the best of times on their island, their sense of themselves is strengthened and reaffirmed. This powerful little novel similarly offers us the chance to appreciate how weird and wonderful our lives can be, whether they are happy ones or not.

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5.0 out of 5 stars On the eve of adulthood - Kafka meets the Buddha, 22 Jun 2008
By Dr. Vernon M. Hewitt (Bristol, UK.) - See all my reviews
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As has been said below, Moominpappa at Sea (MAS), along with Moominvalley in November (MIN), represent the height of Jansson's achievements in the Moomin series. They also, of course, conclude it. While all the novels are unique and oddly unsettling, these last two installments are almost existential, poetic, almost saga like. I should explain that I read all of the Moomin books in the 1970s, and have - in my own middle aged crisis perhaps - returned to them. At the age of 14 I felt about MAS and MIN very much what I feel now - only the language of comparison has changed. Now in my late 40s, it is Moominpappa and oddly the fisherman/lighthouse keeper that I identify with most, not so much Moomintroll - and I am filled with new admiration for the mystery of Little My. When I first read this I could not understand why they left their valley, how they knew where the island was, or what had happened to the lighthouse keeper. Now I know. I also know what happened to the Groke, who Jansson, in her deep humility, finally saves, like Prospero saving Caliban. MIN occupies the same temporal frame of this novel, depicting what is going on `back home' - and it is all written in the same minimalist, insightful way. At onelevel the characters are oddly dysfunctional and lost, at another, they are sublimely knit into a world of nature and light. I am relieved to think that much of this magic touched me when I was 14, but how strong it has grown over the years! There is something almost numinous here. I urge you to read these two together, and then to find and enjoy the earlier and more carefree installments, especially Moominsummer Madness, Moominvalley in November and Tales.
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5.0 out of 5 stars For both children and adults a haunting book., 16 Jun 1999
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'Moominpappa at Sea' is perhaps the most fulfilling of the series. Through each character a very real 'human' characteristic is explored. The need for self-fulfilment and exploration, the ability to adapt to new and unexplored surroundings, and finally friendship - how important to us all that is. For both children and adults a haunting book.
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