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The Boy and the Dog : A Novel by Seishū Hase; Alison Watts is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Boy and the Dog : A Novel about?

“An amazing, beautiful book . . . It shows how one dog’s dignified presence can bring connection and love to a fractured world.” ―Cat Warren, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dog Knows One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring novel about the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. Dogs had a special relationship to humans. . . . They understood the human heart and were attuned to it in a way no other creature was. Following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a young man in Japan finds a stray dog outside a convenience store. The dog’s tag says “Tamon,” a name evocative of the guardian deity of the north. The man decides to keep Tamon, becoming the first in a series of owners on the dog’s five-year journey to find his beloved first owner, Hikaru, a boy who has not spoken since the tsunami. An agent of fate, Tamon is a gift to everyone who welcomes him into their life. At once heartrending and heartwarming, intimate and panoramic, suspenseful and luminous—and deepened in its emotion by the author’s mastery of the gritty details and hardscrabble circumstanc

Who reads The Boy and the Dog : A Novel?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Seishū Hase; Alison Watts
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9780593300411
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
4.4 / 5 (184 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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