Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi by Johanna Sinisalo

There's several characters and the story is told via many individuals - each paragraph has a title after the person whose point of view the happenings are told. The tone of the story is romantic and quite sexual at times. The book tells a story of Mikael, a hip photographer and a young troll. Some of the quotes are straight from the books, others edited cleverly so that the snippet talks about trolls. What makes the most impact on me is how she's quoted several writings among the story. Trolls aren't creatures out of children's books but actual animals inhabiting the Nordic forests.

In this book she's describing a parallel reality that's very much like our world and our time with one huge difference. Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish writer that embraces that genre in her story telling. It seem's we are having a magic realism phase as the last challenge we did also revolved around that theme. The original title is 'Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi' which refers to a known Finnish children's song about a troll and a sun fairy.

The story however is the same but the name changes.

It's a story by Johanna Sinisalo called either 'Not Before Sundown' or 'Troll - A Love Story' depending the country of publication. We went reading again! This time we chose a novel I had already read some years ago and that was really powerful to me. Last time we knew the exact source really late, but this time we knew it months back as the challenge needed some extra time. We usually know the challenges well before hand.

Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi by Johanna Sinisalo