Johanna Sinisalo, trans. from the Finnish by Lola Rogers. Peter Owen, $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-7206-1004-8
This dour but impressive novel by renowned Finnish fantasist Sinisalo (Troll: A Love Story) is set in a near future in which colony collapse disorder, the mass disappearance of bees, has wreaked havoc on the world. With no bees to pollinate vital...
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Johanna Sinisalo, trans. from Finnish by
Lola Rogers. Grove/Black Cat, $16 ISBN 978-0-8021-2464-7
Finnish author Sinisalo (Troll: A Love Story) spins a dystopian tale in her latest. The novel opens in a cemetery, where an illegal transaction of capsaicin, the ingredient in chilies that gives them their heat, is underway; Vanna meets an unknown...
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Johanna Sinisalo, trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston, Peter Owen (Trafalgar Square, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-7206-1343-8
After a one-night stand, business traveler Heidi and bartender Jyrki decide to take a weeks-long series of extreme hikes through the most isolated parts of Tasmania, New Zealand, and Australia. Spectacularly beautiful vistas, soul-crushingly...
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Johanna Sinisalo, Author, Herbert Lomas, Translator , trans. from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas. Grove $12 (278p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4129-3
A young Finnish photographer makes a pet of an orphaned troll in this strange, sexually charged contemporary folk tale, a hit in Europe. Mikael, nicknamed Angel for his stunning blonde good looks, finds the troll behind some dustbins after a night...
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