Doghead
By: Morten Ramsland ; translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9780552773430
Subjects: Fathers and sons; Fiction
Work titles: Hundehoved
Description: "In the Eriksson family, childhood is a shocking experience, full of crude and disturbing rites of passage. It all started with Askild 'the Silent Crackpot', chased by bloodhounds on a German plain after escaping from a Nazi concentration camp: he is a painter, a murderer and a 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. He is haunted by the time he spent hidden in the space under the stairs with his fat aunt, aka 'the Little Bitch.' He has a confession to make and a buried treasure to find. 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Translated from the Danish.