Chased by bloodhounds on a German plain after escaping from a Nazi concentration camp, Askild is a painter, a murderer and a thief.

His son, Niels “Jug Ears” Junior, uses dynamite to blow up the privy when his father sells his cherished coin collection.

Grandson Asger fears dogs coming out of the walls, and can’t stop obsessing about the space under the stairs. He is haunted by the time he spent down there with his fat aunt. He has a confession to make and a buried treasure to find. But first he must plumb the depths of his shipwrecked family history. Unable to banish Doghead, a horror from his childhood, to the shadow realm, he reveals the very bad deeds children can do — to push his family story forward, past a point of no return.

Three generations of wild and dysfunctional Eriksson men are seen through layered and looping stories in a richly imaginative novel that has become a huge bestseller in Europe.

莫頓·朗斯藍

Morten Ramsland

丹麥作傢，1971年生，擁有丹麥史和藝術史學位。作品有一本詩集，早期完成的一部小說和幾本童書。《地下室狗頭》是他第一本以英文齣版的書，榮獲2005年的年度作傢奬，年度圖書奬，讀者票選奬與最具聲望的文學金桂冠奬。