Doppler / by Erlend Loe ; translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2012Description: 171 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1781851050
- 9781781851050
- Doppler. English
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Main Library | Fiction | Loe Erlend | Available | 33111007901370 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Doppler has a nice house, a nice wife and a nice job. But Doppler isn't happy.
'Wonderfuly subversive, funny and original' Observer .
'A darkly comic fable' Independent .
When his father dies, Doppler decides to leave everything behind and start a new life in the forest. There, deep amongst the trees, he reconnects with nature, ponders the meaning of life, and bonds with a baby elk called Bongo.
Sweet, funny and subversive, this is a charming fable about the pressures of modern existence and finding friends in the strangest of places.
'Dead-pan comedy' Financial Times .
'An absurdist, hilariously subversive novel' Saga .
Originally published: Oslo : Cappelen, 2004.
After his father dies, Doppler leaves his job, his home and his family to go live in the forest. When he kills a she-elk for meat he's adopted by her calf. Doppler is a charming, absurd and subversive novel about a man and his moose, with serious undertones and criticism of our modern consumer society.
Translated from the Norwegian.