Dog Boy

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. New Read [ Dog Boy ] by [ Eva Hornung ] – kino-fada.fr Tell me a book is about animals and abandonment, and you don t have to sell it to me I ll buy it Fortunately, in the case of Eva Hornung s DOG BOY, I didn t have to buy it I won it in a Goodreads Giveaway Unfortunately or so it originally seemed , winning it meant having to read it, all of it And I was ready to abandon it after I had read about seventy five pages Everything has a price it s a cliche because it s the truth I was feeling as if I were the first graders audience at Tell me a book is about animals and abandonment, and you don t have to sell it to me I ll buy it Fortunately, in the case of Eva Hornung s DOG BOY, I didn t have to buy it I won it in a Goodreads Giveaway Unfortunately or so it originally seemed , winning it meant having to read it, all of it And I was ready to abandon it after I had read about seventy five pages Everything has a price it s a cliche because it s the truth I was feeling as if I were the fir...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 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 wh...Let me say first that I understand that others will rate this book higher than Iand believe me I m very close to going all the way to a 1 star rating NOT because the book isn t well written, it is, and Not because it has nothing to say, because it doesthus a 2 star rating The low rating is because as I ve said for other books I ve lived pain in my life and mostly I don t need it in my literature There is a book that I rated 5 stars that concerns a very painful experience and the los Let me say first that I understand that others will rate this book higher than Iand believe me I m very close to going all the way to a 1 star rating NOT because the book isn t well written, it is, and Not because it has nothing to say, because it doesthus a 2 star rating The low rating is because as I ve said for other books I ve lived pain in my life and mostly I don t need it in my literature There is a book that I rated 5 stars that concerns a very painful experience and the loss of a dog this book isn t per se about the loss of a dog but it is about loss, pain, dogs and a child children That book Julius Winsome A Novel spoke to me, this didn t That one touched me in a special way, this one didn t On the other hand this book literally oozes angst, pain, loneliness and as I said, loss I felt pain enough that I pulled away from it and built a wall And I truly hate the ending Just me A friend recommended it and I m sure she likes it, so I d say be aware what you re starting and then...Review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012This story is about an abandoned 4 year old boy Romochka, left hungry and cold in an apartment in Moscow After a few days alone, Romochka is unable to tolerate the hunger any longer, and he sets out into the street on Moscow in search of food On the street he sees a pack of feral dogs where he became c...Romochka is four years old when his mother and uncle never return home to their small apartment building in an outer suburb of Moscow, leaving the little boy to fend for himself While his mother had always told him not to leave the apartment or the building, hunger and cold soon drives Romochka out to explore He discovers that the entire building has been abandoned...I have never read a book quite like this in my life It is both sad, thought evoking, gruesome, horrifying, and educational at once It will not be for everyone You must have a very strong interest in dogs in general, dog human relationships, or pack mentality as well as a very strong stomach to enjoy this novel It is about a four year old boy that has been abandoned by both his mother and a drunk, possibly abusive uncle Finding no kindhearted humans on the Russian streets willing or interest I have never read a book quite like this in my life It is both sad, thought evoking, gruesome, horrifying, and educational at once It will not be for everyone You must have a very strong interest in dogs in general, dog human relationships, or pack mentality as well as a very strong stomach to enjoy this novel It is about a four year old boy that has been abandoned by both his mother and a drunk, possibly abusive uncle Finding no kindhearted humans on the Russian streets willing or interested to care for him, he takes up with a pack of feral dogs He lives with them thru season after season, turning into years He begins to think he is a dog Thru his eyes we see the behavior of dogs in their lairs, learn about the pack mentality, and how they work together to survive Much of dog behavior is explained Do not, however, under any circumstances, read this while eating It gets gross The boy e...This book is an intelligent page turner and written in the influence of Jungle book and maybe loosely based on a true story of a Russian Soviet child Anyway no matter this story will pull you along Our main character is a throwaway child from a collapsed society and the story begins as he befriends a stray dog who raises him with her puppies...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 b...THIS BOOK SURELY DID BREAK MY READING HIATUS OF THE LAST 2 MONTHS.You ever see those pictures of people and dogs kissing I saw a picture of just that yesterday where an attractive, middle aged professional woman was letting a dog lick her mouth in her FB profile picture Is there psychology behind human and canine relationshipscertainly Do humans substitute pets for children they ve never hadsurely they do I have an old poem I wrote years ago 20 to be exact while travelling Califnoria THIS BOOK SURELY DID BREAK MY READING HIATUS OF THE LAST 2 MONTHS.You ever see those pictures of people and dogs kissing I saw a picture of just that yesterday where an attractive, middle aged professional woman was letting a dog lick her mouth in her FB profile picture Is there psychology behind human and canine relationshipscertainly Do humans substitute pets for children they ve never hadsurely they do I have an old poem I wrote years ago 20 to be exact while travelling Califnoria with my wife to betitled The Man Who Treated His Metal Detector as if It Were a Dog The Woman Who Dressed Her Yorkie as if It Were Her Daughter We met these nice folks at a campground up in gold rush country I think near Angel Camp, maybe on the fringes of the New Madrid Reservoirthere was a dam I think on the Stanslaus River Anyway, I started wondering about human dog relationships and what they tell us about each otherseems like most of the time the study reveals positive benefits.So be it with D...As soon as I saw this book sitting on a shelf in Waterstones I made a bee line straight for it I am such a huge animal lover and I am a sucker for books with animals on the cover, in the title or narrated by them Wolf Totem, Animal Farm, Black Beauty and Life of Pi all feature in my list of favourite books of all time.Dog Boy is narrated by Ramochka, a four year old boy who lives with his mother and his latest unlce in a high rise appartment block in Moscow After several days of his mum not As soon as I saw this book sitting on a shelf in Waterstones I made a bee line straight for it I am such a huge animal lover and I am a sucker for books with animals on the cover, in the title or narrated by them Wolf Totem, Animal Farm, Black Beauty and Life of Pi all feature in my list of favourite books of all time.Dog Boy is narrated by Ramochka, a four year old boy who lives with his mother and his latest unlce in a high rise appartment block in Moscow After several days of his mum not returning, seeing Unlce moving out all the furniture, and being left to fend for himself in...

• English
• 23 August 2018
Eva Hornung
• Hardcover
• 304 pages
• 0670021490
• Eva Hornung
• Dog Boy