Troll: A Love Story
$32.09
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
An intoxicatingly strange cult novel about queer desire and wildness, as a man unwittingly disrupts his life by opening his home to a peculiar troll
‘A strange and erotic tale… The troll comes to life after hours, unleashing glittering desires’
After a night of drinking and romantic failure, young photographer Angel returns home to find a group of teenagers taunting a wounded troll. Moved by its helplessness, he takes the furry little beast into his home, blis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805331346 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805331345 |
| Author: | Johanna Sinisalo, Herbert Lomas |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press |
| Imprint: | Pushkin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘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
Johanna Sinisalo
Johanna Sinisalo is an award-winning Finnish author. She was born in Sodankylä 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 Sinisalo’s first novel, and on publication it received wide acclaim and won the Finlandia Prize.
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