Dog Boy

Eva Hornung is the author of The City of Sealions, Fire Fire, Hiam (winner of the Australian/Vogel Literary Award), and Mahjar. She lives in Australia.

'In exploring what it might be like to be a dog from a human perspective, Dog Boy sheds much light on what it is like to be human. Utterly compelling and believable' Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi 'A involving, careful book, marked out by a rare sympathy for the natural world ... It offers, also, a frightening and edifying insight into the barbaric systems of contemporary Russia' Daily Telegraph 'A revelation. In creating such a convincing portrait of pack life, she challenges all our assumptions about what it means to have family, individual identity, to be human. Vivid, visceral and compelling, the shock of the closing moments will linger in your mind for days' Psychologies 'An extraordinary novel. Depicting the bleakness of poverty and homelessness in Moscow's underworld with an unflinching eye, Hornung creates a story that is starkly affecting, in which a boy's adoption by a pack of dogs is a disturbing and bewilderingly beautiful phenomenon ... Lyrical, unsettling and impossible to forget' Attitude