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Read & download Det osynliga barnet Tove Jansson ç 9 Read & download Free download Ü E-book, or Kindle E-pub ç Tove Jansson Nt invisibility and what happens when Moomintroll catches the last dragon in the worl Unlike the majority of the Moomins books which already uite short tell a single story this is a compendium of very small tales indeed mostly about people with very small tailsThe stories all center around the theme of people not fitting in with society usually they want to get away from others and be left in peace or they want rid of their worldly possessions that are weighing them down Often they find great contentment in ridding themselves of their earthly baggage and acuire greater happiness through the love of others that is reciprocated when you are kind But mostly the little creatures are just pleased to be free of boredom and burdenThe moral of the stories If you feel trapped and drowning in life cast off your shackles whatever they are run away if necessary and be at peace

Read & download Det osynliga barnet Tove Jansson ç 9 Read & download Free download Ü E-book, or Kindle E-pub ç Tove Jansson In these nine delightfully funny stories readers will discover how the Moomin family What a bunch of strange opaue elliptical little stories This is my first entry into the Moomin world Jansson s books having passed me by as a child I was dubious the pastelly coloured covers of the editions I keep weighing in my hands then returning to the shelves in Unity have put me off but this was lent to me by a close friend whose taste I trust I flipped the book over and read the blurb first If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws would you know what to do it itWell Moomintroll thinks he knows what to do But when he takes his new found pet home things don t work out as plannedAt the sight of that exclamation mark my heart sank Japes ahoy I thought cute little animals getting up to whimsical thingsI couldn t have been wrong It might be because I was dropped into the Moomin world without any preparation but the only thing I would childlike and traditionally delightful in this book were the names of the various creatures the Moomins themselves the Mymble the whompers and creeps and fillyjonks all words to savour across the lipsApart from that I found the stories dark and puzzling and uite moving In The Spring Tune Snufkin is interrupted in his solitary wanderings he is trying to let a song come to him a new tune one part expectation two parts spring sadness and for the rest just the delight of walking alone and liking it by a little creep some kind of forest creature whose chatter drags him back towards his obligations and who then asks him for a great favour a name of his own Snufkin eventually reluctantly diffidently offers Teety woo a light beginning sort of and a little sadness to round it off And thenThe little creep stared at him with yellow eyes in the firelight It thought its name over tasted it listened to it crawled inside it and finally turned its snout up to the sky and softly howled its new name so sadly and ecstatically than Snufkin felt a shiver along his back The Fillyjonk who believed in Disasters is a small fantastical psychological study of a woman who is living a life that doesn t fit her properly and chafing against it breaking free in the only way she can her imaginationThose storms of her own were the worst ones And deep down in her heart the fillyjonk was just a little proud of her disasters that belonged to no one elseGaffsie is a jackass she thought A silly woman with cakes and pillow slips all over her mind And she doesn t know a thing about flowers And least of all about me Now she s sitting at home thinking that I haven t ever experienced anything I who see the end of the world every day and still I m putting on my clothes and taking them off again and eating and washing up the dishes and receiving visits just as if nothing ever happenedSome of the stories are relatively straightforward little Ninny the girl who has become invisible out of neglect and becomes visible again once enfolded in the Moomin family the gentle satire of the Moomin s first ChristmasBut it s The Secret of the Hattifatteners that really sticks in my mind Despite the ludicrous title it strikes me as having strange similarities toMalory s Holy Grail a journey undertaken not from choice but from some force of fate of unhappy and bemusing travels of fear and discovery up until the last couple of pages which gentle back down without the tragedy of MaloryIt s the opening of the story that really struck meOnce upon a time rather long ago it so happened that Moominpappa went away from the house without the least explanation and without even himself understanding why he had to goMoominmamma said afterwards that he had seemed odd for uite a time but probably he hadn t been odder than usual That was just one of those things that one thinks up afterwards when one s bewildered and sad and wants the comfort of an explanationThat s not an opening that belongs in a whimsical children s book That s the beginning to a hundred thousand children s stories about why someone who shouldn t have left did I m not sure now if I want to back read of Jansson s books or if I want to move straight on to her adult books and savour the weirdness of this little collection a little longer

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Read & download Det osynliga barnet Tove Jansson ç 9 Read & download Free download Ü E-book, or Kindle E-pub ç Tove Jansson Spend their first Christmas out of hibernation how they save young Ninny from permane A collection of Moomin short stories about uite darkdeep topics actuallyFor me the shining star of this collection was The Secret of the Hattifatteners where Moominpappa has a midlife crisis and leaves to travel with the hattifatteners He has seen them sailing by in silence and thought them so free and mysterious but are they really It s so well written and so atmospheric and the descriptions are beautiful Very eerieThe Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters was a much complex story than I remembered from my childhood It s about a fillyjonk who is not happy with her current life and who continuously feels like a disaster is looming just beyond the horizon As a kid I thought she was just unbelievably nervous and sort of silly As an adult I recognize that fillyjonk has some sort of an anxiety disorder I was able to find this uote in English You were talking about wind the fillyjonk said suddenly A wind that carries off your washing But I m speaking about cyclones Typhoons Gaffsie dear Tornadoes whirlwinds sand storms Flood waves that carry houses away But most of all I m talking about myself and my fears even if I know that s not done I know everything will turn out badly I think about that all the time Even while I m washing my carpet Do you understand that Do you feel the same way And later on in the story when Gaffsie has satisfied her curiosity that nothing disastrous has ever actually happened to her friend Fillyjonk s thoughts about this are put perfectly Now she s sitting at home thinking that I haven t ever experienced anything I who see the end of the world every day and still I m going on putting on my clothes and taking them off again and eating and washing up the dishes and receiving visits just as if nothing ever happenedThis is a great collection although I also enjoy the whimsy adventure of the earlier Moomin books which do have their share of deep topics don t get me wrong