The Moomins are still off on their island, as seen in the previous book, and this book tells the tale of six members of their supporting cast, the 'B-listers' if you like, descending on the Moomins' house expecting them to be there as they normally would be and getting a bit of a shock. Instead of finding the family, they find an empty home and each other, none of whom really like any of the others. Unfortunately the paper they used was quite thin so the print on one side shows through to the other, which is a dissapointing skimp on their part. So indeed, if you as a reader (and like I most definitely do) already think that the penultimate of Tove Jansson’s Moomin novels, that you consider Moominpappa at Sea to be rather annoyingly depressing, then the final novel of the series, then Jansson’s 1970 Sent i november ( Moominvalley in November) where the Moomins friends and acquaintances all travel to Moominvalley for a visit only to find the house deserted and Moomintroll and his parents gone, could easily and likely feel even more so. Umesto njih, šest anksioznih junaka (četiri junaka poznata iz prethodnih delova serijala i dva nova) pokušavaju da preosmisle mrtvo vreme novembra nastupilo usled sopstvene praznine i odsutnosti porodice trolova.

It was a move that didn’t exactly go down well with readers at the time: Moominvalley in November was anticipated like a new Harry Potter, and people gathered together to read the book aloud.All remain at the house, all have very different personalities that clash often, but something about their homey cohabitation during the icy winter changes each visitor in a gratifying way. nėra tos protestantiškos dvasios, kurią kartais gali pajusti kai kuriose anglosaksiškos tradicijos knygose vaikams.

Moominvalley in November, the final novel in the series, was published in 1970 and serves as a beautiful and deeply subtle valediction to the world of the Moomins. Mało się ruszam, dużo jem, jeszcze więcej śpię i stwarzam sobie gniazdo z koców, z którego wyciągam rękę tylko po dolewkę herbaty z sokiem malinowym. Przyznaję, że czytałam Muminki tylko w podstawówce, dopiero teraz do nich wracam i byłam przygotowana na doznanie emocjonalne, a tutaj doznałam wstrząsającego doświadczenia intelektualnego. Much of the novel can be read as Jansson looking back at her creation with no small amount of regret - Toft serves as the young, innocent Tove, not realizing what she's going to unleash on the world with her imagination.Tove Jansson had just lost her mother when she wrote this and the passages where Toft thinks about Moominmamma are really rather moving as a result. Having read and loved the rest of the moomin books several times over several decades, I was reluctant to read this final book written by Tove after the loss of her mother. There familiar characters converge – Snufkin, the Hemulen, Fillyjonk, and others – seeking out the Moomins' welcoming company, only to find them absent. books, tells her audience that they'll have to go on without her, and work out their problems as best they can.

Fillyjonk is suffering from a mixture of agoraphobia and OCD, confined to her house in a cycle of perpetual dusting, scrubbing and fretting. Meanwhile, Grandpa-Grumble comes to the conclusion that the winter ages people and so decides to go into hibernation in the clothes cupboard like the Ancestor. Man regis, o gal tiesiog taip gerai nebeprisimenu kitų, bet paskutinė ciklo knyga yra filosofiškiausia iš visų.Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.