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| Original Title: | Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi |
| ISBN: | 0802141293 (ISBN13: 9780802141293) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Enkeli, Palomita, Martes, Tohtori Spiderman, Ecke, Pessi |
| Literary Awards: | Gaylactic Spectrum Award Nominee for Best Novel (2004), James Tiptree Jr. Award (2004), Finlandia Prize (2000), Akateemisen kirjakaupan myydyin esikoisteos (2000), Kuvastaja (2001) |
Johanna Sinisalo
Paperback | Pages: 278 pages Rating: 3.59 | 4010 Users | 424 Reviews
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| Title | : | Troll: A Love Story |
| Author | : | Johanna Sinisalo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
| Published | : | February 19th 2004 by Grove Press (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. European Literature. Finnish Literature. LGBT. Urban Fantasy |
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Everyone has their rough nights, but things have clearly taken a turn for the surreal when Angel, a young photographer, finds a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a young troll. Trolls are known in Scandinavian mythology as wild beasts like the werewolf, but this troll is just a small, wounded creature. Angel decides to offer it a safe haven for the night. In the morning Angel thinks he dreamed it all. But he finds the troll alive, well, and drinking from his toilet. What does one do with a troll in the city?Angel begins researching frantically. Angel searches the Internet, folklore, nature journals, and newspaper clippings, but his research doesn't tell him that trolls exude pheromones that have a profound aphrodisiac effect on all those around him. As Angel's life changes beyond recognition, it becomes clear that the troll is familiar with the man's most forbidden feelings, and that it may take him across lines he never thought he'd cross. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, peculiar, and beguiling story of nature and man's relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves.
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Plot: Climate change is pushing trolls, once the stuff of folk tales, into urban Finland. A photographer finds a baby troll being abused by youths, takes it home and falls in love with it... Ensue drama. The blurring between human and non-human is spooky and Im not actually wholly sure trolls are fictional anymore 😂 Sinisalo raises really interesting questions of climate induced migration and what it means to be a citizen of the world; were experiencing the sixth great extinction now, whatI'm not sure why, but I went into this one expecting a kind of twisted/playful dark comedy. That's not at all what this book is -- in fact there is pretty much no humor at all. In addition there were a number of other annoyances:- the erratic and often pointless jumps in POV- the fictional history/folklore, which started out interesting but eventually seemed like the author was just trying to pad the page count- the seemingly blatant connections being made between homosexuality, bestiality, and
Let me just preface this by saying that this is one of the best novels I've ever read. Prepare for some gushing. I also want to note that I'm an American reader, so a little bit of my fondness might stem from the novelty of being able to read an award-winning Finnish novel that was so wonderfully translated. For me, the book gave the same slightly-distanced feel that foreign movies have, and I love that. This is partially because America really lacks the quantity (and quality) of folklore that
Johanna Sinisalo is apparently well-known in Finland. It's too bad the only pieces of hers that we have in English are this book and a short story in the Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy (which I have yet to read). But if Troll is representative of her writing, I have high, high hopes for more of her work.Troll plays with several kinds of eroticism and desire as we see the central story unfold: Angel, a gay photographer, rescues a young, injured troll from a band of teenage tormenters and takes
I don't think this book is homophobic. I think the author just hates her characters. It is the kind of literary style (not the somewhat whimsical story I was hoping for, given the title) where likable characters aren't considered necessary (though it would help if they had some dimensions).The main character Angel is, I'm going with, a complete asshole. The idea of bringing a Troll--which in this world is a wild animal--into his home is bad enough--though that could just be idiocy. But the main
I enjoyed the twist on the end in this and unfortunately this made me feel better about this book overall. But the more I think about it, the more I remember my apathy through most of the book. It's an odd book...Actually, here's a question for my international friends. I can't figure out if this is a regional or translation issue. When you're a kid and you get in a fight with a sibling do you say "You began it!" or "You started it!"?... and I couldn't help but wonder about why Angel was so
This was a great story. I would have liked for more things to be made clear in the story instead of being danced around. and ack! the ending! Don't do that to me!
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