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The boy and the dog : a novel / Seishu Hase ; translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593300411 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0593300416 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 308 pages : map ; 19 cm
- Edition: First English-language edition.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: Shōnen to inu. |
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| Subject: | Dogs > Fiction. Human-animal relationships > Fiction. Young men > Fiction. Tsunamis > Japan > Fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | HASE S (Text) | 33126020569194 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | HASE S (Text) | 33126020569103 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection"-- - Baker & Taylor
After a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a young man in Japan finds a stray dog named Tamon, becoming the first in a series of people whose lives Tamon changes on his five-year journey to be reunited with his beloved first owner. Illustrations. - Penguin Putnam
âAn amazing, beautiful book . . . It shows how one dogâs dignified presence can bring connection and love to a fractured world.â ?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 dogâs tag says âTamon,â 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 dogâs 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 authorâs 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.