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Eva Hornung
Dog Boy
Title: Dog Boy
Author: Eva Hornung
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 290
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 1263772800
ISBN: 074759905X
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 7 MB
Download: allowed
Description
A vivid, riveting novel about an abandoned boy who takes up with a pack of feral dogs
Two million children roam the streets in late twentieth-century Moscow. A four-year-old boy
named Romochka, abandoned by his mother and uncle, is left to fend for himself. Curious, he
follows a stray dog to its home in an abandoned church cellar on the city's outskirts. Romochka
makes himself at home with Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs as he slowly
abandons his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Able to pass as either boy or
dog, Romochka develops his own moral code. As the pack starts to prey on people for food with
Romochka's help, he attracts the attention of local police and scientists. His future, and the
pack's, will depend on his ability to remain free, but the outside world begins to close in on him
as the novel reaches its gripping conclusion.
In this taut and emotionally convincing narrative, Eva Hornung explores universal themes of the
human condition: the importance of home, what it means to belong to a family, the
consequences of exclusion, and what our animal nature can teach us about survival.
Insightful reviews
Bark's Book Nonsense: 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. The author doesn’t explain where everyone has gone as the
story is told from the abandoned child’s perspective but my guess is desperation. The setting
appears to be a war torn country.
Cold, hungry and scared he spies a large dog and knows her belly will be warm from prior
experience so he follows her. Thus begins his integration into her pack. Mamochka, her
brothers and her young puppies become Romochka’s new family and it isn’t long before he
becomes more dog-like in mannerism than human. The dogs are feral and every day is a
struggle for survival, hunting food and eating it raw, cleaning their wounds with only their
tongues, marking territory and avoiding other stray packs of dogs in order to make it another
day.
This story was a gripping and gory, if not always believable, account about what it might be like
if a pack of feral dogs accepted a human toddler into their midst. Their habits and their love and
protection for each other and the human boy were fascinating and heartbreaking and excellently
portrayed. There isn’t very much dialogue for most of the book and as a result the story
seemed even more intimate to me because we feel everything the dogs and boy experience.
Parts seemed a bit too far fetched for me and at times Romochka seemed wise and physically
capable beyond his years but who really knows what a young human with strong survival
instincts is capable of when left out in the wild this way?
I must admit I was more entranced by the first half where the boys’ life becomes integrated with
that of the dogs. The latter half where humans interfere broke my heart and the book then lost
some of its appeal.
This is a book I’d recommend reading if you’re interesting in dogs as much as I am and/or
enjoy a strong survival story with a unique take on things.
Kendra: I won't forget this heartbreaking story. I couldn't put it down. It was a tough read for me,
sort of like The Road by Cormac McCarthy, in that I was dreading what might be coming next,
but cared so much about the boy that I was compelled to keep reading because I hoped for the
best.
The main themes for me were: what it means to be human, people's capacity for cruelty &
indifference, and the importance of family (or pack) for survival.
I highly recommend this book. The author has done a remarkable job of making the journey
inside the mind of a feral child feel genuine. I know this one will stick with me a long time.
Lizzy Chandler: Every now and then a book comes along that you know will change your life.
You may not know how, exactly, but the reading of it touches you in a way so profound,
resonates so deeply inside you, that you recognize at once it will become part of your “soul”, for
want of a better word, part of your being.
Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy is such a book for me.
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Kelsey: i actually loved examining this for a number of reasons. First off, Hornung did a
phenomenal activity with personality improvement of Romochka and the person dogs. She has
a good knowing of pack habit and an excellent knowing of kid psychology. Combining the 2
used to be really an venture on her part, in particular simply because there are usually not many
instances like this reference. This tale used to be fullyyt believable. Romochka's innocence, in
addition to his animalistic facet have been fantastically woven jointly to create a personality
which I felty compassionate in the direction of and likewise respected. I enjoyed that Hornung
did not carry again the grit of the situation. Vile and brutal scenes in the course of the e-book
made it actual and i am so happy that Hornung wasn't afraid to depict the entire harsh
occasions encountered via the pack and Romochka. i might have given this e-book five stars if it
hadn't been for the hasty and overdue introductions of Dmitry and Natalya. I felt that a part of
the ebook was once a piece bumbling and nonetheless wasn't fairly definite of the dynamic
among them, nor may possibly I come to a decision if I beloved both of them. Still, that did not
destroy the e-book for me. i have learn various experiences that did not just like the ending. i
myself stumbled on the finishing fairly satisfying, within the admire that it retains you thinking
about as to if or no longer Romochka's killing of the pups is a sign that he's relocating ahead
into existence as a human, or if he's tied so deeply to the pack that he's not able to quell the nonhuman a part of him. It had simply the correct quantity of closure to be satisfying, yet sufficient
of an open finishing to get the reader thinking. All in all, a good performed book.
Ilyhana Kennedy: What to assert approximately this book? Omigosh.Halfway via reading, I
needed to move Google to set up no matter if i used to be interpreting myth or reality, so
convincing was once the story. and yes, i used to be either disturbed and saddened to listen to
that there have been millions, convinced thousands of orphaned homeless young children
surviving even though they can in publish communist Russia, and that there have been
documented circumstances of youngsters residing with dogs, as with regards to Ivan
Mishukov.in a prosperous nation like Australia, it really is demanding to visualize the type of
harsh child-unfriendly tradition that built during this era, that kids will be left to fend for
themselves and be taken care of with derision.The tale is so rather well written. the writer does
not balk with the proof of survival and the booklet could be a bit strong, too visceral for a few
readers.I loved the fluid prose, an enticing foil for the customarily uncooked content. and that i
beloved the best way the tale used to be held mostly in the boy's view of the world...apart from
the ending.Being a puppy individual myself, I provide the writer a massive tick for the
authenticity of the puppy behaviour.The tale usually rides the borderline among disbelief and
engagement, such is the topic matter.The finishing simply did not paintings for me. It felt love it
was once wrapped up in a rush and neglected relatively a few telling of the boy's
transition.Apart from that, a superb read, extra of an experience.
Claudia Piña: Este libro narra l. a. historia de un niño ruso que queda huérfano y termina
viviendo con una 'familia' de perros ferales. Desde el primer capítulo fué bastante diferente de
lo que esperaba. Está contado desde el punto de vista del niño, en un estilo que me recuerda
bastante a Room de Emma Donogue: Al estar contado desde l. a. perspectiva del niño
podemos experimentar su historia de una manera muy íntima y comprender su forma de
percibir el mundo, lo que implica que en ocasiones uno termine leyendo entre líneas y
descubriendo una historia mucho mas cruda y difícil que los angeles que aparenta ser para un
niño. los angeles dinámica entre el niño y los perros es muy interesante. Incluye descripciones
muy viscerales, así como vínculos, roles y conductas establecidas entre todos ellos. Pero
además hay interacciones muy complejas con otros grupos, tanto animales como humanos,
que me parecieron igual o incluso mas interesantes.Hay varios cambios drásticos que hacen
que cada sección del libro parezca una historia diferente. Por una parte es efectivo, ya que
aunque los angeles primera parte del libro es fascinante, hubiera sido muy difícil mantener l. a.
dinámica por mucho tiempo, pero al ultimate siento que algunos personajes no funcionan muy
bien (view spoiler)[ Los científicos, en general, son interesantes por que aparentan ser
complejos y ambivalentes, pero personalmente siento que no están desarrollados hasta todo lo
que pueden dar y terminan siendo algo caricaturescos y muy desagradables de leer. Al cambiar
a su punto de vista esperaba una visión mas simpática de su lado de l. a. historia pero todo el
tiempo me parecieron personajes muy acartonados y poco inteligentes (hide spoiler)].Me
parece que hay muchas cosas interesantes en el libro, que provoca reacciones intensas y
soprende en varios puntos y que en basic es una historia de las que se siguen pensando
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