![]() ![]() The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire. " imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy. ![]() The eponymous humanlike monster familiar from the mythology. 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. by Johanna Sinisalo & translated by Herbert Lomas RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2004. 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. Trolls are known in Scandinavian mythology as wild beasts like the werewolf, but this troll is just a small, wounded creature. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. 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. 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).Īngel, 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. ![]()
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