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|title=Doppler

|author=Erlend Loe

|publisher=Head of Zeus

|date=December 2012

|summary=An amusing parable of a modern man and his intention to be alone – apart from a fostered young elk…

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Meet Doppler. He describes himself late in this as ''a failed man of my time. Or just a man of a failed time. Depending on how you look at it.'' The typical Oslo resident, a diligent career man with a young family, he falls off his mountain bike one day and has a kind of epiphany, deciding to avoid everyone else and live alone in the forest. The book starts when he gains a companion however – he is short of food and drink and kills an elk, only to find the animal's baby latching on to him and forming an unbreakable bond…