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Troll
  • Published: 25 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837310463
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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Troll

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From a rising star of Danish fiction, this moving, unabashedly original fairy tale for the climate change era is told from an unexpected perspective: the vilified troll of Scandinavian myth

The troll lives in the forest, which is shrinking by the day. Her fate is tied to the earth, and she suffers for it.

Far away sits the power-hungry king. The townspeople fear him. They have little choice but to follow his orders, to slaughter the animals and cut down trees. To make it stop, the troll must punish them.

In the cracks, however, there is love, maybe even hope. Erik and Petra find refuge, and each other. Karoline turns to magic – and rebellion. Others try to stay alive in their own ways. But even those who want to help the troll can be betrayed by their own worst instincts. And the troll, trapped in her destiny, can make no exceptions.

Both timeless and urgent, surreal yet infinitely tender, Rasmus Daugbjerg’s dark fable is like a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale for our times.
  • Published: 25 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837310463
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
Categories:

About the author

Rasmus Daugbjerg

Rasmus Daugbjerg (b. 1993) is one of the boldest new voices in Danish literature. He has received numerous awards, including the inaugural Majprisen, the Mare Kandre Prize, the Michael Strunge Prize and the Danish Art Foundation’s revered three-year stipend.
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Praise for Troll

Troll is ruthless. Troll is tender. Troll is parable pushed to its limits. Rasmus Daugbjerg binds the impossible to the real to reveal the unbearable. I’m warning you, Troll is an elaborate trap disguised as a simple tale. It will catch you in the truth

Anne de Marcken

A new worldview bursting with forgotten and repressed logic – animistic, fairytale-like, and mythological. In Daugbjerg, the supernatural appears perfectly natural

ATLAS

Hallucinatory, dark and hypnotic, Troll is plucked straight from the world of dreams. Animated by a thrilling, palpable anger, the novel is a moving elegy for the natural world – one that revels in the wild, haunted beauty of the forest

Max Lury

Rasmus Daugbjerg achieves what all my favourite authors do: he is able to step outside of humanity and help us look at ourselves through a strange and wonderful window. Troll is an essential and enchanting contemporary fable

Camilla Grudova

Rasmus Daugbjerg is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Danish literature. His dreamlike, poetic novels breathe new life into old myths and legends

Louisiana Literature

Rasmus Daugbjerg's Troll combines a beautifully old-fashioned fairy tale with the sort of conceptual minimalism that can only grow in Northern European soil. The troll's tale is timeless and reads as smoothly as a drink of water, as must be the case for any grand fairy-tale saga

Vladimir Sorokin

Rasmus Daugbjerg's novels create a powerful and strange world that is both ancient and hypermodern, archaic and innovative. The language is mysterious, ghostly, dreamy and surreal, all done with a unique tone that both baffles and surprises

Mare Kandre Prize jury (winner)