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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: 7.4 MB
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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
Traci: This is one of those novels that has sucked me in right from the beginning with the
horrifying reality that a four-year-old boy has been abandoned by his mother and uncle and left
to fend for himself. The fact that my own son is four, makes it all that more fascinating (and
disturbing) to read how the boy falls in with a canine family.
The author is masterful at describing canine traits and behavior and is able to cultivate profound
sympathy for the dog clan and the boy who has adopted them as his own. The humans in the
story often come off as evil, manipulating, and selfish and the author is able to use that to help
the reader embrace the dog boy.
I recommend this book to people who have an interest in canine behavior, human sociology,
and are looking for an understanding of other cultures and societies. This is not a quick read,
nor is it an easy read, but it is well worth the time and the emotional investment.
Elaine: The story of a young boy Romochka,abandoned and alone, adopted by dogs is an
emotional and moving one.
Initially I was repulsed by many of the very graphic descriptions of their
lives...hunting,eating,cleaning one another but I'm so glad I didn't give up. This is truly an
extraordinary story of the nurturing nature of dogs and the relationship between them and this
young boy. I don't feel I can do this book justice in a review and you really need to read it to fully
appreciate it.
Ann: Set in the outskirts of Moscow at the time of perestroika. Thousands of children are
homeless, roaming alone, forming gangs to survive. A four year old boy is abandoned in an
apartment his uncle strips of all belongings. He is adopted by a pack of feral dogs who have
found shelter in the basement of a ruined church. He lives with them as a fellow dog and finally
their pack leader for some four years. He becomes known and feared as Dog Boy. t There are
increasingly military sweeps in the Communist reorganization effort to round up homeless
children to be locked into state run 'homes', the condition of which as hardly better than the life
they were supposedly saved from. The fate of the thousands of dogs is to be spayed if they are
fortunate, but mostly simply shot as menaces to humans. All are desperate to survive in a
ruined society- animal and humans alike. A stunning and almost supernatural depiction of dog
life versus human life on the edge. One of the most amazing books. Hornung is Australian and
has won prizes, but not the worldwide recognition she so richly deserves. This book may
change that.
Bark's Book Nonsense: I received this during the first reads software the following at
Goodreads. My first win!Romochka is a 4 yr outdated boy who wakes up one morning to
discover his mom and uncle, in addition to everybody in his house building, gone. After a
number of days he ventures outdoor into the chilly unforgiving streets of Moscow. the writer
doesn’t clarify the place each person has long past because the tale is advised from the
deserted child’s viewpoint yet my wager is desperation. The surroundings seems to be a battle
torn country. Cold, hungry and scared he spies a wide puppy and is familiar with her stomach
might be hot from past event so he follows her. hence starts off his integration into her pack.
Mamochka, her brothers and her younger doggies turn into Romochka’s new relatives and it
isn’t lengthy prior to he turns into extra dog-like in mannerism than human. The canine are feral
and each day is a fight for survival, looking nutrition and consuming it raw, cleansing their
wounds with in basic terms their tongues, marking territory and fending off different stray packs
of canines so as to make it one other day.This tale was once a gripping and gory, if no longer
continually believable, account approximately what it would be like if a pack of feral canines
permitted a human child into their midst. Their conduct and their love and safeguard for every
different and the human boy have been interesting and heartbreaking and excellently portrayed.
There isn’t greatly discussion for many of the publication and accordingly the tale appeared
much more intimate to me simply because we think every thing the canine and boy experience.
elements appeared a section too a ways fetched for me and now and then Romochka appeared
clever and bodily able past his years yet who relatively is familiar with what a tender human with
robust survival instincts is able to whilst ignored within the wild this way?I needs to admit i used
to be extra entranced via the 1st part the place the boys’ lifestyles turns into built-in with that of
the dogs. The latter part the place people intrude broke my center and the ebook then
misplaced a few of its appeal.This is a ebook I’d suggest studying if you’re fascinating in
canine up to i'm and/or get pleasure from a robust survival tale with a distinct tackle things.
Maicie: I picked this publication for a problem the place I needed to examine anything I feared.
Dogs, even supposing I personal one, scare the daylights out of me. All these teeth! this isn't a
narrative approximately vicious canine however it did not anything to allay my cynophobia. it's a
tale a few four-year-old boy who spends years residing with a pack of feral canines in Moscow.
the tale is predicated loosly on a real event.Highly recommend.
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 los angeles 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 l. a. que aparenta ser para un niño. l.
a. 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 l. a.
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 tiempo después de
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