Dog boy
(2010)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/HORNUNG,E

Availability

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2010
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION

293 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780670021499, 0670021490
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

A four-year-old boy named Romochka is abandoned by his mother and uncle and left to fend for himself on the streets of Moscow, with uncounted millions of homeless children and adults. He follows a stray dog to its home in a deserted church celler. There he joins Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs and slowly he forgets his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Romochka attracts the attention of local police, street urchins, and finally, scientists