By making trolls a scientifically acknowledged, though endangered, species, Johanna Sinisalo succeeds in creating a world that is barely a hair’s breadth away from our own. It is told in differing voices, with sometimes only a sentence to a page, and throughout there are newspaper articles, Scandinavian troll-tales and extracts from scientific studies into the Felipithecus trollius. Spiderman Ecke, holding a hopeless torch for Angel and Palomita, a trafficked Filipino woman who lives in the flat below. The consequences of this action spread insidiously to his ostensibly straight employer Martes his ex-lover Dr. Mikael, nick-named Angel, is a childishly manipulative photographer who finds and adopts a troll cub.
This weird and wonderful novel unfolds like a crazy spiderweb or a crack across a windowpane, shattering in unexpected places.
It’s the most beautiful thing that I’ve ever seen.
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