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Comet in Moominland

Tove Jansson · 1946 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

The sea has gone grey and the shore is covered in small heaps of sand nobody made, so a young troll and his friend set out for the observatory in the Lonely Mountains to ask the professors what is on its way. They pick up a wanderer with a mouth organ and a girl with a gold ankle ring, and cross a valley of lizards and a seabed the heat has drained dry. The date is chalked on a blackboard, and the walk home has to be measured against it.

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