Troll: A Love Story

Book Review and Insights

I recently read a book by Finnish author Johanna Sinisalo, Herbert Lomas (Translator) called, “Troll: A Love Story.” The original interest in this book was to identify an interesting story based on local folklore in order to plan a tour of Finland.

About The Book

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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).
 
Angel, 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. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. 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. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, beguiling story of nature an…