![]() ![]() ![]() Most of Sinisalo's characters are morally obscure (or, as Mikael speculates of the troll, amoral in their animal ignorance of right and wrong). ![]() Johanna Sinisalo, who won the Finlandia Award for Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi ( Troll: A Love Story, the novel's American translation is called), leaves the troll (and Mikael as well) an enigma, alternating first-person narratives by several characters with staccato chapters of "primary materials" on trolls: Web pages, encyclopedia entries, folk tales, essays on myth, scientific reports and newspaper stories. wildness? lust? rage? Or is he merely an endangered and often misclassified feral cat, anthropomorphic only through the same processes of evolutionary convergence that streamlined both dolphin and shark? Is the abandoned baby troll an hallucination? A devil? A psychoanalytic doppelganger of Mikael's. ![]() An actual, honest to goodness Felipithecus trollius cub, holed up among the trashcans and surrounded by the same local thugs who mug gay men who go out alone at night in Tampere, Finland. No, not an uncouth neighbor or a bad love prospect. Now this: Mikael (aka Angel, Michelangelo and Miguel) returns to his apartment building to find a troll in the yard. Of course Martes, unwilling to acknowledge his homosexuality, denies they ever had a relationship at all. ![]()
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