As the title suggests, that book is chaotic and carnivalesque, as the Moomins adjust to life in a floating theatre, while at the same time attempting to entertain the creatures who live in the flooded Moominvalley.
Moominland Midwinter ably evokes the sense of wonder and magic that Jansson’s previous novels in this series achieve, but it is a different tone and mood to her previous book, Moominsummer Madness. Outside, he finds a dormant landscape, bewitched and dreamlike, cold beyond his imagining, with a frozen river and creatures he has never met before: the creatures of winter. Instead, he is forced to leave the house through the chimney sweep’s hatch in the attic. Now, during winter, he sees that snow piles against the Moomin House to its roof, and it is impossible to get outside by the doors or windows. Moomintroll has only ever before experienced snow as a remnant during spring. Try as he might he cannot wake his family to keep him company and so, for the first time, he finds himself entirely alone and in a strange environment. But this time, Moomintroll wakes in the middle of winter and is unable to fall asleep again. Moomins, like many creatures in cold climates, hibernate during the winter months. Tove Jansson’s fifth book in the Moomin series is the first set in the world of Finland’s winter.
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