Reviews about Morten Ramsland
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Doghead
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Hundehoved is an explosive generational novel. Coarse and funny. Refined and sensitive. A wild, worldly-wise imaginative tale which to a large degree is the history of men and manhood. With a rich sprinkling of ‘dog heads’: life’s runaways, cavemen, skulkers, serial seducers, alkies, swindlers, seafarers, dreamers and strapping brawlers (…) The normal, yet hopelessly, off-kilter existences have their own troubles to deal with. Guilt, shame and betrayal are innate in the family and central themes in the novel. If the characters don’t already have something on their consciences, they soon will.
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Signe Lindskov Hansen, Information
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Doghead
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The novel is particularly accomplished, well-written and worthy of more than a mere passing smile. Here a long overdue new Danish storyteller is not just starting out, he is flippant, frank and in full flow. Here’s a big woof to Ramsland’s fertile imagination.
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Niels Houkjær, Berlingske Tidende
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Doghead
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The age old art of storytelling has become young again and acquired a beautiful, fleshy body. Hundehoved starts out in a ploughed East German field in 1944, with the Norwegian Askild Eriksson being chased by German soldiers, and ends in modern day Denmark with the Eriksson family being split asunder. This is why Askild’s grandchild, Asger, tries to collect all the family’s many anecdotes into one meaningful whole. Asger’s project turns into one of the best collections of yarns I have heard. The tempo is fast, the story a mixture of airy poetry and down-to-earth comedy. Morten Ramsland can keep barking.
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Kamilla Löfström Kristensen, Ekstra Bladet
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