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Can I read Funeral for a Dog on EtoBox?
Funeral for a Dog by Thomas Pletzinger is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Funeral for a Dog about?
Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away.After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated ménage à trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future. Funeral for a Dog won the prestigious Uwe-Johnson Prize.
Who reads Funeral for a Dog?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Thomas Pletzinger
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.64 / 5 (242 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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