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The
2005 Award
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Not
Before Sundown by
Johanna Sinisalo
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Mikael,
a young gay photographer, finds in the courtyard of his apartment block
a small, man-like creature. It is a young troll. Mikael gives the troll
a name, Pessi, and takes him home and hides him. The first thing Mikael
does is to research everything he can about trolls from the internet, from
folklore, nature journals and newspaper cuttings. What Mikael does not discover
is that trolls exude pheromones that smell like a Calvin Klein aftershave
and that this has a profound aphrodisiac effect on all those around him. Shooting an assignment for an ultra-hip make of jeans, Mikael finds himself fast-tracked into a dangerous liaison with Martes, the sexually ambivalent art director of the advertising agency, while others around him become obsessed with him because he carries the troll's scent. However, what Mikael fails to learn, with tragic consequences, is that Pessi the troll is the interpreter of man's darkest, most forbidden desires. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Johanna Sinisalo was born in Finnish Lapland in 1958. Not Before Sundown, her first novel, has been translated into eight languages. Also known in Finland for her television and comic strip writing, Johanna has, in addition to the Finlandia Award, won the Atorox prize for best Finnish SF or fantasy story six times and has been the winner of the Kemi National Comic Strip Contest three times. |
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