Doghead - Tapa blanda

"Funny and touching...Ramsland masterfully captures a zigzagging litany of recollections across generations and the cold North Sea, revealing the family's true fortune: survival in the space between deep dysfunction and enduring love."
- "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"An earthy, funny, unflinching family history."
- "Kirkus Reviews"

International Acclaim for "Doghead
""Funny and touching...masterful."
- "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"A huge international success...combines rambunctiousness, salty humor and poetic imagination."
- "Independent on Sunday" (UK), Books of the Year
"A book reminiscent of Grass' "The Tin Drum" in its humor and "Angela's Ashes "in its heartfelt affection..."the "family novel par excellence."
- "Stern" (Germany)
"Already a huge success in Europe..."Doghead "is brilliant, exhilarating, and haunting."
- "Booklist "(starred review)
"Like Allende's "The House of the Spirits," but more ironical and slightly more modern. Family novels hardly get any better than this."
- "BuchMarkt" (Germany)
"A brilliant magical realist family saga. Better than Peter Hoeg."
- "Weekendavisen" (Denmark)
"Reading fuel for fans of John Irving and T. C. Boyle."
- "Lubecker Nachrichten" (Germany)
"An earthy, funny, unflinching family history."
- "Kirkus Reviews"

"The American debut of an award-winning Danish novel, a bestseller throughout Europe...An earthy, funny, unflinching family history." - Kirkus Reviews

A three-generation saga of a dysfunctional Norwegian family finds the narrator visiting his dying grandmother, who imparts the true story of his war-hero grandfather's crackpot nature. Reprint.