This book, however, completely surprised me. The Finnish version has abruptly 270 pages and the layout of the pages leaves a lot of white space making it a real page-turner. I’m not going to lie: I started to read this book because it was the second shortest book in my March TBR pile. And since then it has been sitting in the TBR pile. She highly recommended me to get the book and as it was cheap, it ended traveling home with me. Nevertheless, I bought this book in October when visiting the Helsinki Book Fair with good friend of mine. I’ve never been interested in trolls and my experience with Finnish science fiction has been like a wacky rollercoaster – not that good. Receiver of the 2000 Finlandia Prize, debut novel of the author, and generally recommended by readers, I must admit tha the blurb in the back didn’t particularly drawn me in. 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. 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. He 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. What does one do with a troll in the city?Īngel begins researching frantically. But he finds the troll alive, well, and drinking from his toilet.

In the morning Angel thinks he dreamed it all. Angel decides to offer it a safe haven for the night. Trolls are known in Scandinavian mythology as wild beasts like the werewolf, but this troll is just a small, wounded creature.

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.

Johanna sinisalo troll