Troll: A Love Story, Johanna Sinisalo

Troll is a semi-sweet taste of Finnish fiction. Handsome, gay, advertising photographer Michael comes home late one night to find a group of teens teasing a young troll cub in his courtyard. Beguiled by the troll, Michael takes it in, hiding it from others even as he tries to learn what to feed it. As his involvement with the troll, Pessi, intensifies, Michael's relationships with others start to warp. Sinisalo's writing, through the filter of translation, is slightly awkward but fast-paced. Action is interspersed with excerpts from scholarly and literary works about trolls. A quick read, a sweet book, but nothing special.
Posted by supersusie at February 19, 2005 9:53 AM