Moominpappa at Sea

Moominpappa at Sea
Author(s)	Tove Jansson
Original title	Pappan och havet
Country	Finland
Language	Swedish
Series	Moomins
Genre(s)	Children's novel
Publication date	1965
Preceded by	Tales from Moominvalley
Followed by	Moominvalley in November

Moominpappa at Sea (Swedish: Pappan och havet, literally "The father and the sea") is the seventh book in the Moomin books by Finnish author Tove Jansson. It is based primarily around the character of Moominpappa. It was first published in 1965. Moominpappa at Sea forms the basis of episodes 25 and 26 in the 1990 TV series .

Plot

Moominpappa is dissatisfied with his life in Moomin Valley, so he organises the family to set off on a journey to find a lighthouse in the sea. This will also be the perfect backdrop for a novel about the sea. Once arriving there, they find it a desolate and lonely place, inhabited only by a very unfriendly fisherman. Moomintroll is also certain that he has seen a ghost lurking about the place. Moominmamma misses home very much.

Nature and the sea plays a big part of the novel as Moominpappa tries to understand it and there are many strange things happening on the island that seem to be inexplicable.

Location

The map at the front of Moominpappa at Sea locates the island in The Gulf of Finland. It even gives a location: Latitude 60° 7' 12" North, Longitude 25° 45' 50" East. (Not far from Helsinki, about 26 miles east of Helsinki, and 7 miles south of the coast of Finland; though no island exists there in real life.)

See also

Novels portal

• Moomin

External links

• The Moomin Trove

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