Not Before Sundown

from AltheaAnn

Sinisalo posits that trolls are actual creatures, just long unknown to science because of their shy and nocturnal habits. When our protagonist, a gay ad designer, finds a young troll being abused by a gang of teenagers, he takes the creature into his home. However, rather than calling animal cont...

from sara_k

Troll A love story by Johanna Sinisalo is a twisted folk tale. Angel stops an act of bullying and rescues the victim who turns out to be a young troll. Though mythic, in this reality, Finnish trolls have been identified and classified by zoologists. Trolls are rare in the wild and almost never kn...

from wandering_star

Angel, a photographer, finds a gang of yobs beating someone up near his home. He chases them away, and then finds that what they were beating up was, in fact, a young troll. He takes the beast home to nurse it back to health, but becomes mesmerised by its wild grace. The story is told in short bu...

from masterdeski

The first person perspective was a slightly confusing here. It was actually page 23 before I realized Angel was a guy! (should have read the back cover to refresh my memory before I started reading it) I loved the inserts of folklore stories, academic reports, and such; they made understanding th...

from egj

Bara sedan solen sjunkit (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi; Not Before Sundown), Sinisalo, Johanna, Månpocket, Stockholm, 2003 (2000). Finished: 2005-01-25. This is an English review of a Finnish novel that I read in Swedish translation. Not Before Sundown is the winner of the Finlandia Book Prize, and ...