If you want to know why an anonymous author refers to the Low Countries as 'the buttocks of the world', this is your book. Belgium here is not the land of Poirot or even Tintin, but of drunks and general ne'er-do-wells. And at the heart of the book, there is a boy who takes all that the world, and especially his family, can throw at him. You will really want to find out where he ends up and how he gets there.