Troll: A Love Story
Troll: A Love Story
Author: Johanna Sinisalo
Desc: 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. Trolls are known in Scandinavian mythology as wild beasts like the werewolf but this troll is just a small wounded creature. Angel decides to offer it a safe haven for the night. In the morning Angel thinks he dreamed it all. But he finds the troll alive well and drinking from his toilet. What does one do with a troll in the city? Angel begins researching frantically. Angel 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. 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. 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.