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 and man’s relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves.
“An imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy … The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire. ” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World
© 2007 Grove Press (E-Book): 9781555847371
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E-Book: 1. Dezember 2007
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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 and man’s relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves.
“An imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy … The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire. ” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World
© 2007 Grove Press (E-Book): 9781555847371
Erscheinungsdatum
E-Book: 1. Dezember 2007
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Sarah
9. Aug. 2022
A fascinating story with a mix of fantasy and folklore with an unlikable but interesting gay main character that does not shy away from the more tragic side of urbanisation.
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