Description

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

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.

Publisher 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