NOT BEFORE SUNDOWN
Book ID/图书代码： 04320203B13894
English Summary/英文概要： Mikael, a young gay photographer, finds in the courtyard of his apartment block a small, man-like creature. It is a young troll. Mikeal gives the troll a name, Pessi, and takes him home and hides him.
The first thing Mikeal does is to research everything he can about trolls from the internet, from folklore, nature journals and newspaper cuttings. What Mikeal 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 ,Mikeal finds himself fast-tracked into a dangerous liaison with Martes, the art director of the advertising agency, while others around him become obsessed with him because he carries the troll’s scent.
However, what Mikeal fails to learn, with tragic consequences, is that Pessi the troll is the interpreter of man’s darkest, most forbidden desires.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 年輕的同性戀攝影師Mikael在自己公寓的院子裡發現了一頭小型的類人怪獸，這是一頭年輕的巨人。熟悉斯堪的維亞神話的人都知道，這是一種長得像人的野獸，曾經住在山洞裡。但對於Mikael來說，這是他所見的最美麗的生物。本以為這種生物早已滅絕，但現在它竟然成為了北歐孩子的玩具。Mikael給這個巨人一個名字：Pessi，帶他回家藏了起來。隨後Mikael就開始到處尋找有關巨人的資訊，網路、神話故事、自然雜誌和剪報到處尋找，瞭解巨人的生活習性等等。Mikael唯一不知道的是巨人身上散發著一種類似于Calvin Klein刮胡用品的味道，而且這種味道能讓周圍的人愛上身上帶有這種味道的人。當Mikael的牛仔褲上沾染了這種氣味後，Mikael發覺自己和性感的廣告公司藝術總監Martes陷入了一場危險的關係，不知不覺，Mikael周圍的人都開始愛上他。Mikael所不能預測的是這最終悲慘的結局，因為巨人Pessi體現的就是人類黑暗、暗藏的性欲衝動。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：版權銷售訊息: English (UK), English (USA), French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Albanian, Czech, Polish, Russian and Bulgarian獲獎訊息:Finlandia prize 2000, James Tiptree prize 2004
Praises: “A sharp, resonant, prickly book that exists on the slipstream of SF, fantasy, horror and gay fiction.”– Neil Gaiman
“A punk version of The Hobbit”– USA Today
“Chillingly seductive.” – Independent, Best Reads of 2003
“科幻小說旋流中一部尖銳、洪亮、嚴厲的傑作，集驚悚、奇幻和同性戀元素為一體。”
——Neil Gaiman
“朋克風格的霍比特人。”——USA Today
“一種極有誘惑力的毛骨悚然之感”——《獨立報》2003年最佳圖書
About the Author/作者介绍： Johanna Sinisalo是當代芬蘭最成功的國際作家。她的首本小說Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (Not Before Sundown, Tammi 2000)於2004年獲得芬蘭文學獎（the Finlandia Prize for literature）和小詹姆斯蒂普特裡獎（the James Tiptree Jr Award）
小說Lasisilmä (The Glass Eye, Teos 2006)由德國出版社Tropen出版德文，Linnunaivot (Birdbrain, Teos 2008)也獲得了巨大成功，已經出版了法語和英語版本。《衛報》和《出版人週刊》將這兩本書列為重點推薦圖書。“Birdbrain”在入圍2012法國文學大獎Prix Escapades。此書還在挪威出版。
2005年Sinisalo編輯了編年傳記” The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy”.其作品” Baby Doll”2009年入圍著名的星雲獎Nebula Award
Johanna的作品已經被譯成英語、法語、德語、瑞典語、日語、俄語、拉脫維亞語、阿爾巴尼亞語、捷克語、波蘭語、葡萄牙語、保加利亞語和挪威語多國語言。
JOHANNA SINISALO was born in Finnish Lapland in 1958.Even before publication of her first novel-which was awarded the prestigious Finlandia Prize -she had built a stellar reputation as a writer of science fiction and fantasy stories and as an advertising guru. Also known in Finland for her television and comic-strip writing, she has won the Atorox Prize for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy story sic times and has been the winner of the Kemi National Comic Strip Contest three times.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Not Before Sundown /Troll – A Love Story
ALBANIA, Dituria
BRAZIL, Devir
BULGARIA, Perseus
CZECH, One Woman Press
FINLAND, Tammi
FRANCE, Actes Sud
GERMANY, Tropen
JAPAN, Sunmark
LATVIA, Atena
LITHUANIA, Vaga
POLAND, Terytoria
RUSSIA, Amphora
SLOVENIA, Modrijan
SPAIN, Poliedro
SWEDEN, Wahlstrom & Widstrand
UK, Peter Owen
US, Grove Atlantic
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