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Not Before Sundown

Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi

Johanna Sinisalo (born 1958)

Translated by Herbert Lomas

English editions

In English

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Mikael, a young photographer working among gay men in the advertising business, finds a creature behind his apartment block that he has only met in folklore: a young troll, a shy animal of the night. He wants it the moment he sees it, and carries it home. The bond that grows between them is intense, almost magical, and little by little it unsettles everything in his life. He thought he had caught a scrap of the wilderness for himself, but it is Mikael who becomes the prisoner, unaware that tamed nature is about to hit back. Blending old myth with modern biology, the novel imagines a world where trolls are a real species and where the borders between people and beasts, the city and the forest, begin to dissolve.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
268 pages in the original
Genres
Speculative, Love, Nature (assigned by AI)
Set in
Finland
First published
2000 by Tammi
Author's age
42 when first published
ISBN

9789513118860 (original)

9780720611717 (Peter Owen, United Kingdom)

9780802141293 (Grove Press, United States)

9781805331346 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)

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