{"id":270276,"date":"2009-04-13T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/04\/13\/latest-review-doghead\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:10:08","slug":"latest-review-doghead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/04\/13\/latest-review-doghead\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: Doghead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larissa Kyzer’s look at Morten Ramslund’s Doghead<\/em> is the latest addition to our review section.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ramslund’s going to be in New York for the upcoming PEN<\/span> World Voices Festival,<\/a> and in fact, he’ll be participating in a Scandinavian reception with Jan Kjaerstad<\/a> at Idlewild Books<\/a> on May 2nd from 6-8pm. <\/p>\n

Doghead<\/em> sounds like a fun book—here’s how Larissa’s review begins:<\/p>\n

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When first published in Denmark in 2005, Morten Ramsland\u2019s Doghead<\/em> was a staggering success. Although Ramsland\u2019s prior poetry collection and first novel had been largely overlooked, Doghead<\/em> received widespread popular and critical acclaim, winning numerous national prizes, including the prestigious Danish Booksellers\u2019 Golden Laurels Prize. Four years later, Doghead<\/em> has now made it to the United States, and has already garnered its author the perhaps well-meaning, but dubious title, of \u201cDenmark\u2019s John Irving.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A sprawling, dark-humored, frank, and stringently cynical novel, Doghead<\/em> traces four generations of the Eriksson family, whose vividly offbeat members include wayward sailors, epic drunks, would-be painters, over-attentive mothers, adulterers, accomplished liars, orphans, and escapists. It\u2019s a generally unhappy clan, a collection of almost-strangers who find themselves bound together not so much by blood ties or loyalty, as by common history. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> for the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larissa Kyzer’s look at Morten Ramslund’s Doghead is the latest addition to our review section. Ramslund’s going to be in New York for the upcoming PEN World Voices Festival, and in fact, he’ll be participating in a Scandinavian reception with Jan Kjaerstad at Idlewild Books on May 2nd from 6-8pm. Doghead sounds like a fun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[1646],"class_list":["post-270276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313526,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270276\/revisions\/313526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}