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Published 24 February 2016
ISBN 9781922182845
Format Paperback
Extent 320pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

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Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010
Introduced by Yann Martel
Abandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There in the rich smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's teats. And so begins Romochka's life as a dog.

Weak and hairless, with his useless nose and blunt little teeth, Romochka is ashamed of what a poor dog he makes. But learning how to be something else…that's a skill a human can master.

Fortunately—because one day Romochka will have to learn how to be a boy.

The story of the child raised by beasts is timeless. But in Dog Boy Eva Hornung has created such a vivid and original telling, so viscerally convincing, that it becomes not just new but definitive: Yes, this is how it would be.

Published 24 February 2016
ISBN 9781922182845
Format Paperback
Extent 320pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

About the author

Eva Hornung

Eva Hornung, formerly published as Eva Sallis, is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism: her first novel, Hiam, won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1997 and the Nita May Dobbie Award in 1999. Her novel The Marsh Birds won the Asher Literary Award 2005 and was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year 2005, NSW Premier’s Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Hornung’s acclaimed Dog Boy was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010. Her most recently published book, The Last Garden, won the SA Premier’s Prize for Literature in 2018. She lives in rural South Australia.

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