Troll: A Love Story

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Angel, a young photographer, comes home to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. Wanting to protect what he sees as a helpless creature, he takes it in, blissfully unaware of the chaos that awaits.As Angel dives into research on his strange new companion, it becomes clear that the troll has a powerful connection to all of humanitys most forbidden feelings - and it begins to make Angel cross boundaries he never imagined he would. Beguilingly original and strange, Troll: A Love Story is an unforgettable story of mans relationship to wild things.

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'Chillingly seductive' - Independent

'Blame global warming, but trolls are moving out of legend to scavage at the outskirts of Finnish cities... Sinisalos strange and erotic tales peer at the crooked world through a peephole. The troll comes to life after hours, unleashing glittering desires... Is the troll becoming more human (hurt, jealousy), or does he merely reveal our own trollishness' - Guardian

'An imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy... Overlapping narrative voices nicely underscore the moral of Sinisalos ingeniously constructed fable: The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosened postmodern desire' - Washington Post

'Simple but powerful... A thoughtful, inspiring and rewarding work' - Gay Times

'A wry thriller-fantasy... Each discovery sounds like the voice of a storyteller reminding us of how the gods play with our fates' - The New York Times

Author Bio

Johanna Sinisalo is an award-winning Finnish author. She was born in Sodankyla in 1958. She worked as a professional designer in advertising before embarking on a career as a screenwriter and writer. Troll: A Love Story was Sinisalos first novel, and on publication it received wide acclaim and won the Finlandia Prize.