Dog Boy

Dog Boy

2009 • 304 pages

A child abandoned in a decaying city finds a home with a pack of dogs and only slowly learns what it means to be human.

This outstanding, moving novel has won a host of prizes for its Australian author:

- Winner, Fiction category, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, 2010
- Shortlisted, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2009
- Shortlisted, ASL Gold Medal, 2010
- Shortlisted, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, ABIA, 2010


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Stark, gritty, not always pleasant but an incredibly good read! Hats off to the author she grabbed me by the ruff of my neck and shook me throughout the book!

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