Johanna Sinisalo
Born
in Sodankylä, Finland
June 22, 1958
Genre
Troll: A Love Story
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37 editions
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2000
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The Core of the Sun
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26 editions
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2013
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Enkelten verta
16 editions
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2011
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Linnunaivot
12 editions
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2008
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Vieraat
3 editions
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published
2020
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Kädettömät kuninkaat ja muita häiritseviä tarinoita
3 editions
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2005
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Lasisilmä
3 editions
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2006
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Sankarit
3 editions
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2003
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Ukkoshuilu
5 editions
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2021
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Salattuja voimia: Opas valoisille ja pimeille poluille
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2012
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“Like that breeder-woman sitting at the bar, who thinks it's a buzz to go into a gay joint and has no doubt heard somewhere that this is one. Her lurid get-up's a joke, ludicrous. She's the type who dons the camouflage-green combat trousers, wraps a bandanna around her head and paints herself with black lipstick, imagining all the lesbians in the joint'll have the hots for her. Not so much imagining as secretly hoping.
Naturally, no one goes and sits with her. She's been here before, and everyone gives the ice-cold shoulder, yet she still turns up again and again. Someone might argue we're zoo animals for her. But I've another theory. For her, we're noble savages, a kind of grey area outside the respectable, minutely organized community, an untamed wilderness it takes a lot of guts to step into. But if you do dare, there's a glorious smell of freedom floating around your trousers and giving the finger to society, making whoever an instant anarchist. Certainly, for her, coming here is like putting a washable tattoo on your shoulder : there's the thrill of deviance with none of the dull commitment - and she'll never have to wonder whether she's too weird to be seen out before dark.”
― Troll: A Love Story
Naturally, no one goes and sits with her. She's been here before, and everyone gives the ice-cold shoulder, yet she still turns up again and again. Someone might argue we're zoo animals for her. But I've another theory. For her, we're noble savages, a kind of grey area outside the respectable, minutely organized community, an untamed wilderness it takes a lot of guts to step into. But if you do dare, there's a glorious smell of freedom floating around your trousers and giving the finger to society, making whoever an instant anarchist. Certainly, for her, coming here is like putting a washable tattoo on your shoulder : there's the thrill of deviance with none of the dull commitment - and she'll never have to wonder whether she's too weird to be seen out before dark.”
― Troll: A Love Story
“Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.”
― The Core of the Sun
― The Core of the Sun
“I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.”
― Linnunaivot
― Linnunaivot
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