Troll: A Love Story

By: Johanna Sinisalo

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Synopsis: This internationally acclaimed winner of the Finlandia Award is &“a brilliant and dark parable about the fluid boundaries between human and animal&” (The Boston Globe). Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. What does one do with a troll in the city? As the troll&’s presence influences Angel&’s life in ways he could never have predicted, it becomes clear that the creature is the familiar of man&’s most forbidden feelings. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, beguiling story of nature and man&’s relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves. &“[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy . . . The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.&” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World