Doppler has just lost his father. Despite the fact that he has a pregnant wife & two children, he decides to move into the woods. Here he starts a lonely & purposefully boring existence. He has never been so happy. When Doppler kills a she-elk for meat he can`t feel guilty about it, but he does feel a bit guilty about the calf she left behind. When the baby elk adopts him, Doppler is tempted to knock it down as well. But the little elk is wily & escapes death, & gradually they become friends. He names the little elk Bongo. Doppler is a charming, absurd & subversive novel with serious undertones & criticism of our modern consumer society.