The winner of two of the most prestigious literary awards in Finland, Johanna Sinisalo, has created a unique novel, comparable in beauty and atmosphere to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and “The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende. This is not mysticism or fantasy, “Troll” is a love story.< /p>

Photographer Mikael is in love with himself. But one day, returning home through an empty city at night, he succumbs to a strange impulse and saves a small living creature from a flock of teenagers. He goes to bed and only in the morning realizes that now his roommate is a rare, almost extinct animal that once inhabited the Karelian forests - a troll...

Myths and legends of Northern Europe, skillfully woven into the reality of modern Helsinki, and the surprisingly pleasant language to read, made Johanna Sinisalo's novel a bestseller, and undoubtedly one of the most significant events in modern Finnish literature.