Doghead

Asger Eriksson, who collects family stories that are always thrilling and rarely quite true, has long kept his relatives' past buried. Returning to Denmark to sit with his grandmother Bjørk as she dies, he hears the stories pour out in no particular order: grandfather Askild, painter and thief, who survived a Nazi concentration camp; Asger's father Niels, whose birth took place in a privy; cousins who fall for each other. Asger is still haunted by Doghead, a horror from his boyhood, and by hours spent hiding beneath the staircase with an aunt. There is something he must own up to, and Bjørk's hints about a buried fortune send him in search of it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

381 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark

First published

2005 by Rosinante

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9788762104549 (original)

9780385610254 (Doubleday, United Kingdom)

9780552773430 (Black Swan, United Kingdom)

9780312376543 (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, United States)

9780552779562 (Black Swan, United Kingdom)

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