English language
Published March 22, 2010 by Viking.
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A child abandoned in a decaying city finds a home with a pack of dogs and only slowly learns what it means to be human.
This outstanding, moving novel has won a host of prizes for its Australian author:
- Winner, Fiction category, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, 2010
- Shortlisted, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2009
- Shortlisted, ASL Gold Medal, 2010
- Shortlisted, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, ABIA, 2010
Subjects
- Abandoned children -- Fiction
- Feral dogs -- Fiction
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction