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Chased by bloodhounds on a German plain after escaping from a Nazi concentration camp, Askild is a painter, a murderer and a thief.
His son, Niels “Jug Ears” Junior, uses dynamite to blow up the privy when his father sells his cherished coin collection.
Grandson Asger fears dogs coming out of the walls, and can’t stop obsessing about the space under the stairs. He is haunted by the time he spent down there with his fat aunt. He has a confession to make and a buried treasure to find. But first he must plumb the depths of his shipwrecked family history. Unable to banish Doghead, a horror from his childhood, to the shadow realm, he reveals the very bad deeds children can do — to push his family story forward, past a point of no return.
Three generations of wild and dysfunctional Eriksson men are seen through layered and looping stories in a richly imaginative novel that has become a huge bestseller in Europe.
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Naughty boys. Dirty secrets. Mad dogs. In the Eriksson family, childhood is a disturbing experience, full of crude and disturbing rites of passage. It all started with Askild ‘the Silent Crackpot’: painter, murderer and thief. His son, Niels ‘Jug Ears’ Junior, is born in an outhouse, wins respect by kicking other boys in the balls, and uses dynamite to blow up the privy when his father sells his cherished coin collection. And his son, Asger ‘the Liar’, collects stories about his shipwrecked family which are always exciting, though not entirely true. Unable to banish Doghead, a horror from his childhood, he reveals the very bad deeds children can do – pushing his family forward, past a point of no return. Doghead is a richly imaginative farcical tragedy, a witty saga of three generations of wild Eriksson men. 'A huge international success...combines rambunctiousness, salty humour and poetic imagination.' Independent on Sunday
About the Author
Morten Ramsland was born 1971. He is the author of a collection of poems, an earlier novel and several children’s books. Doghead is his first book to be published in English. It became a huge bestseller in Denmark, and he won the Author of the Year, Book of the Year, Reader’s Prize and the most prestigious prize for literature, the Golden Laurel Prize in 2005.
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- PublisherDoubleday UK
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0385610254
- ISBN 13 9780385610254
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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