The Boy and the Dog by Hase, Seishu

The Boy and the Dog (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593300411)

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The Boy and the Dog by Hase, Seishu

The Boy and the Dog

$25.00
The Boy and the Dog by Hase, Seishu

The Boy and the Dog

$25.00
Format: Hardcover
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"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 circumstances that define the lives of the various people who take Tamon in on his journey--this bestselling, award-winning novel weaves a feel-good tale of survival, resilience, and love beyond measure.

Author: Seishu Hase
ISBN-10: 0593300416
ISBN-13: 9780593300411
Publisher: Viking
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.15h x 5.33w x 1.13d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/05/2022
Booklist 10/01/2022 pg. 22
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2022
Shelf Awareness 01/20/2023
By Seishu Hase
By Seishu Hase
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Seishu Hase has published many bestselling novels in his native Japan, a number of which have been adapted for film. He has been nominated six times for the Naoki Prize, awarded biannually to the best work of popular fiction, and finally won it for The Boy and the Dog, which has sold a quarter of a million copies in Japan and is being adapted for film and published around the world.

Alison Watts is the translator of the novels What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, Spark by Naoki Matayoshi, and The Aosawa Murders and Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda. She is a longtime resident of Japan.

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