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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. |
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- 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 | Display | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | HASE S (Text) | 33126020569103 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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.