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Raisin, RossRamsland,Mortenfires, which his firefighter father, Brian,inevitably puts out.God’s Own CountrySam Marsdyke, the teenage son of afarmer up on the Yorkshire Moors. Hespends his days working the sheep,mending fences, trying to dodge the eyeof his brutal, silent father, and most ofall, watching the transformation of thefarms and villages around him. From thetop of the moors he watches the goofyramblers and the earnest ‘towns’, thefamilies from York, who are feverishlybuying up the farmhouses left empty bybankrupt farmers. As he watches, oneyoung daughter of a new family catcheshis eye.DogheadChased by bloodhounds on a Germanplain after escaping from a Naziconcentration camp, Askild is a painter, amurderer and a thief.His son, Niels “Jug Ears” Junior, usesdynamite to blow up the privy when hisfather sells his cherished coin collection.Grandson Asger fears dogs coming out ofthe walls, and can’t stop obsessing aboutthe space under the stairs.Three generations of wild anddysfunctional men are seen throughlayered and looping stories in a richlyimaginative novel.66