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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Good. 448 pages. Chased by bloodhounds on a German plain after esca ping from a Nazi concentration camp, Askild is a painter, a murde rer and a thief. His son, Niels Jug Ears Junior, uses dynamite t o blow up the privy when his father sells his cherished coin coll ection. Grandson Asger fears dogs coming out of the walls, and c an't stop obsessing about the space under the stairs. He is haunt ed by the time he spent down there with his fat aunt. He has a co nfession to make and a buried treasure to find. But first he must plumb the depths of his shipwrecked family history. Unable to ba nish Doghead, a horror from his childhood, to the shadow realm, h e 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. From the Hardcover edition. Editoria l Reviews Review A brilliant magical realist family saga. Better than Peter Hoeg. When I read it I had to pinch my arm to see if I was dreaming. It was really that good. Deserves to be an intern ational bestseller. - Weekendavisen From the Hardcover edition. From the Back Cover Naughty boys. Dirty secrets. Mad dogs. In t he Eriksson family, childhood is a disturbing experience, full of crude and disturbing rites of passage. It all started with Askil d ?the Silent CrackpotÂ': painter, murderer and thief. His son, N iels ?Jug EarsÂ' 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 h is son, Asger ?the LiarÂ', collects stories about his shipwrecked family which are always exciting, though not entirely true. Unab le to banish Doghead, a horror from his childhood, he reveals the very bad deeds children can do ? pushing his family forward, pas t 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 colle ction of poems, an earlier novel and several children's books. Do ghead is his first book to be published in English. It became a h uge bestseller in Denmark, and he won the Author of the Year, Boo k of the Year, Reader's Prize and the most prestigious prize for literature, the Golden Laurel Prize in 2005. From the Hardcover edition. Nº de ref. del artículo: 801t
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