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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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5 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 2016Text Publishing Company · 320 pages · 9781922182845
- Other · English · 2010Viking · 9780670021499
- Other · English · 2010Text Publishing · 9781921656378
- Other · English · 2010Bloomsbury · 293 pages · 9780747599050
- Other · German · 2011Suhrkamp · 335 pages · 9783518462881
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