Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo | Pushkin Press | 9781805331346
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Troll: A Love Story

Translated by Herbert Lomas

ISBN

9781805331346

Published

5th December 2024

Format

Paperback

Pages

288

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.

Reviews

Chillingly seductive

Independent

Strange and erotic… The troll comes to life after hours, unleashing glittering desires

Guardian

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