Troll: A Love Story
«Dark, funny and disturbingly erotic... Troll is a thrilling descent into the deep dark Finnish forest»
The Times
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' Guardian
Les merAn 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' Guardian
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, blissfully unaware he has just welcomed chaos into his life.
With its eyes full of nocturnal wildfire and powerful aphrodisiac scent, the troll soon casts its odd spell on Angel, who finds himself crossing boundaries he never imagined he would. Intoxicatingly imaginative and strange, Troll: A Love Story is an unforgettable story of the dark, hairy underbelly of human desire.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pushkin Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781805331346
- Utgivelsesår
- 2024
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
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.
Anmeldelser
«Dark, funny and disturbingly erotic... Troll is a thrilling descent into the deep dark Finnish forest»
The Times
«Feels fresh and bright... A lively romp... Has a playfulness and charm that you can't fake»
Observer
«Chillingly seductive»
Independent
«Strange and erotic... The troll comes to life after hours, unleashing glittering desires»
Guardian
«Clever, funny, dark and tender - it's the love story you never knew you needed»
Marie Claire, 'The best books of 2024'
«An imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy... Overlapping narrative voices nicely underscore the moral of Sinisalo's 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
«A punk version of The Hobbit... Sinisalo cleverly taps the fabled legacy of myths while ditching the fairy-tale tone you might expect... Although the book exploits the conventions of the fantasy genre, it clearly transcends them... This smart, droll novel points out the absurdity of consumerism,... [and] underscores how our ad-driven culture and its images permeate our lives»
USA Today
«A brilliant and dark parable about the fluid boundaries between human and animal... Johanna Sinisalo creates scenes that make you laugh out loud; ten pages later you're holding your breath with anxiety. Such talent is not to be taken for granted»
The Boston Globe
«Shocking in parts and heartbreaking in others, this is a stunning bit of modern-day mythmaking»
SFX