Troll

A Love Story

Paperback, 240 pages

English language

Published Feb. 19, 2004 by Grove Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8021-4129-3
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5 stars (2 reviews)

Winner of the Finlandia Award, Troll: A Love Story is an enchanting novel that has become an international sensation. 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.

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4 stars

Such a weird tale. A gay man finds a baby troll being beaten by ruffians, rescues him and grows obsessed with caring for his wild charge. And then things became uncomfortable to me as paternal love morphs into something else. I like the dawning wtf horror this book gave me, and it stuck in my head as a unique piece of unmagical realism. I think it might be a criticism of pedophilia, which makes me uncomfortable because the characters are mostly gay men, though the juxtaposition of the mail order bride in the story seems to suggest a more general critique of any exploitation. Lets just hope that trolls stay hidden.

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  • Fiction - General
  • Fiction
  • Literary
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fantasy fiction