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Doghead - Softcover

Morten Ramsland

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9780385612791: Doghead
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0385612796 ISBN 13: 9780385612791
Publisher: Doubleday, 2007

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Doghead [Paperback] Morten Ramsland

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From the Back Cover

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, born in 1971, has degrees in Danish and art history. Doghead is his first book to be published in English. A huge bestseller in Denmark, it won four major literary prizes there including Author of the Year, Book of the Year, the Reader’s Prize, and the most prestigious prize for literature, the Golden Laurel Prize. It has also won the Premio Berto and Premio Edoardo Kihlgren 2nd Prize in Italy.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0385612796
ISBN 13 
9780385612791
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
384
Rating
  • 3.79 out of 5 stars
    2,274 ratings by Goodreads