Dog Boy: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670021499 (0670021490)
ASIN: 0670021490
Publish date: 2010-03-18
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Survival,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Family,
Contemporary,
Russia,
Animals,
Fiction
I won this through the first reads program here at Goodreads. My first win!Romochka is a four year old boy who wakes up one morning to find his mother and uncle, along with everyone in his apartment building, gone. After a few days he ventures outside into the cold unforgiving streets of Moscow. ...
A first-read win.Reading this book is a very uncomfortable experience. I say that meaning the highest compliment. This fictional story about a four year old boy being abandoned by his family and being raised by feral dogs in Moscow is often repulsive and horrifying. The author pulls no punches when ...
15 years ago
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