The Resource Dog boy, Eva Hornung
Dog boy, Eva Hornung
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The item Dog boy, Eva Hornung represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Dog boy, Eva Hornung represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- In a deserted Moscow apartment building four-year-old Romochka waits for Uncle to come home. Outside the snow is falling, but after a few days hunger drives Romachka outside, his mother's voice ringing in his ears, Don't talk to strangers. Overlooked by passers-by, he follows a street dog to her lair and there he joins her suckling puppies
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Dog boy
- Title
- Dog boy
- Statement of responsibility
- Eva Hornung
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In a deserted Moscow apartment building four-year-old Romochka waits for Uncle to come home. Outside the snow is falling, but after a few days hunger drives Romachka outside, his mother's voice ringing in his ears, Don't talk to strangers. Overlooked by passers-by, he follows a street dog to her lair and there he joins her suckling puppies
- Summary
- Joining a pack of feral dogs after being abandoned by his family, 4-year-old Romochka of late-20th-century Moscow slowly discards his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters and preys on people for food before attracting the attention of the police and scientific community.
- Award
- Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Fiction, 2010.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 344329
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hornung, Eva
- Dewey number
- 823.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dogs
- Feral children
- Moscow (Russia)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Dog boy, Eva Hornung
- Control code
- 000043565034
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 293 p.
- Isbn
- 9781921520099
- Label
- Dog boy, Eva Hornung
- Control code
- 000043565034
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 293 p.
- Isbn
- 9781921520099
Subject
- true20th century -- 1901 -- 2000
- trueAbandoned children
- trueAustralian fiction
- Dogs -- Fiction
- Feral children -- Fiction
- trueHuman/animal relationships
- trueLiterary fiction
- Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction
- trueMoscow, Russia
- trueScientists -- Russia
- trueWild children
- trueWild dogs
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