7/5/2023 0 Comments Dogboy by Eva Hornung![]() When he finally realizes they are never coming back and the building is entirely uninhabited, driven by cold and hunger, he dresses himself in as many clothes as he can find and goes into the frozen streets, hoping for … he doesn't know. Romochka is 4 when he is abandoned, first by his mother and then by his uncle, in a condemned Moscow apartment building. But if it isn't romantic in the Kipling sense, Hornung's novel is a warm and beautifully written story about love and family, with sections that will lift your spirits and others that will break your heart. ![]() With its gritty, smelly urban setting and its unflinching realism,ĭog Boy will never be a Disney cartoon. ![]() Stories of boys raised by dogs (or wolves) are as old as Rome, probably as old as the bond between humans and canines, and may have reached their zenith with Kipling's Jungle Books and their stories of Mowgli.ĭog Boy, by award-winning Australian novelist Eva Hornung - though it is certainly the story of a boy raised by dogs - is something else again. ![]()
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