Doppler
2004 • 149 pages

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A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book A bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose. This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a moose-calf named Bongo. Or is it Bongo who adopts him? Together they devote themselves, with some surprising results, to the art of carefree living. Hilarious, touching, and poignant in equal measure -- you will read it with tear-stained cheeks and sore sides -- Doppler is also a deeply subversive novel and a strong criticism of modern consumer culture.

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Doppler

Doppler is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by Erlend Loe.

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It was entirely a coincidence that I read this entire book on the same day of the year on which the book itself ends – Norway's Independence Day. It was great.

May 17, 2014

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