Everyone has their rough nights, but things have clearly taken a turn
for the surreal when Angel, a young photographer, finds a group of
drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a
young troll. Trolls are known in Scandinavian mythology as wild beasts,
like the werewolf, but this troll is just a small, wounded creature.
Angel decides to offer it a safe haven for the night. In the morning
Angel thinks he dreamed it all. But he finds the troll alive, well, and
drinking from his toilet. What does one do with a troll in the city?
Angel begins researching frantically. Angel searches the Internet,
folklore, nature journals, and newspaper clippings, but his research
doesn't tell him that trolls exude pheromones that have a profound
aphrodisiac effect on all those around him. As Angel's life changes
beyond recognition, it becomes clear that the troll is familiar with the
man's most forbidden feelings and that it may take him across lines he
never thought he'd cross. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a
wry, peculiar, and beguiling story of nature and man's relationship to
wild things and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves.
