Title: DOG BOY

Author: EVA HORNUNG

MELBOURNE, TEXT PUBLISHING, 2009

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This novel is an engrossing story of a young boy who becomes a member of a family of dogs.  The setting is Moscow,  and the child is abandoned by the adults in his life in a derelict block of flats.  The four year old boy stays inside the shambles of rooms which is his home for a week, but once he has eaten everything he can find,  he wanders into the icy streets and eventually follows a dog who is the matriarch of a family of wild dogs. Continue reading →