His plan, when he finishes, is to end his own life. He enjoys adventuring with his father but starts to get withdrawal symptoms when he misses his TV cartoons.ĭusseldorf is a man who has spent some time recreating the scene of his father’s death during the war in excruciating detail. When Doppler’s wife decides she needs to head to Rome for a break, Gregus stays with Doppler at the tent. Doppler feels like Gregus is a cause that can be saved from society. He’s 4 years old and attends nursery school. At one point she diagnoses Doppler’s problem in the way that teenagers often do: Doppler feels she’s a lost cause due to her ‘niceness’ and will inevitably simply integrate into society. She tells him he will be expected to be home by the time of the birth in May and Doppler agrees, despite having no intention of doing so!ĭoppler’s daughter, Nora, is 16 and heavily into the Lord of the Rings books and films. Otherwise, let’s take a closer look at some of the characters that Doppler meets along the way.ĭoppler’s wife becomes pregnant during the book, thanks to a conjugal visit she pays to her husband in the forest. If you do, go and do it now – I’ll be right here waiting for when you get back. So, that should be all you need to decide whether you want to read the book. But if you can get into the right frame of mind then the book will definitely take you on an enjoyable journey. I can see why that would be as Doppler is certainly not an easy character to root for. ![]() I’ve read a few reviews online where people haven’t taken to the book at all. I can only tell you how *I* found the book but regardless, for me, this is book deserves 4 out of 5 stars. I famously hate rating things because I feel distilling knowledge down to a simple scale is both impossible and pointless. Overall I’d say it’s a book where you get out of it whatever you bring to it. But it’s also written with a lot of heart and is quirky and whimsical. So, it’s a book for people with an enjoyment of the surreal. ![]() Absurd situations are presented without comment on how ridiculous they are. He takes everything in his stride and brushes things off with a wry sense of humour. Doppler is a very matter of fact person, and nothing fazes him. One thing the book is, however, is very funny. The cover of one international edition of Doppler. But if you’re expecting a novel-like story with a satisfying conclusion then you may be disappointed. Overall, it feels like one act in a longer work.ĭoes this matter? Probably not. It’s presented in chapters and it’s maybe too long to call it a novella.īut a novel generally has a character go through some degree of personal change over the course of the novel. ![]() Perhaps the first thing to say about this book is that it’s not really a novel. Together they weave their way through a life of forest craft and anti-capitalist living. Eventually Doppler adopts the Elk, not entirely through choice, and so begins a magical friendship. The elk was a mother with a calf and initially Doppler tries to get the calf to flee. He sees a passing Elk (Moose, to North American readers) and kills her. Lying on the forest floor he feels compelled to abandon his ‘nice’ life and live in a tent in the forest.ĭoppler packs away some belongings and leaves his family a note telling them not to expect him for dinner, before hiking into the forest and setting up camp.Ī few weeks later, after running out of food, he realises that if he’s going to live off the land he’ll have to kill animals. On one such bike ride, shortly after his father dies, Doppler falls and hits his head. Also available from ARK (Norway) and Amazon. Order Doppler with free worldwide delivery on Book Depository. He has a nice job, and he enjoys nothing more than a nice bike ride through the forests around Oslo. He lives in a nice house with his nice wife and together they raise their children to become nice people. Or just a man of a failed time.” Story outlineĪndreas Doppler is a nice man. ![]() After a brief outline and my overall impressions, you may want to decide between reading the book and continuing with this article! There will be some fairly major spoilers. Spoiler Alert: This is going to be a reasonably deep dive into the book. A deeply subversive fable about consumerism, existence… and a baby elk called Bongo.
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