From the author of Doppler, an outrageously funny novel about a grumpy middle-aged man obsessed with life's little pitfalls... and the charms of Nigella Lawson.

Aspiring playwright Bror Telemann hates Germany. His wife, Nina, loves everything about it. So a family holiday at the foot of the Alps, south of Munich - which Bror insists is the birthplace of Nazism - is bound to cause tensions.

Especially when Bror spends his whole time fantasising about his latest obsession, Nigella Lawson, instead of writing the play that the world is expecting.

How long can Telemann bear the pressure of his empty existence? Or will his long suffering family be the first to snap?

Subversive and original, this is the latest novel from the deliciously dark mind of Erlend Loe.