# The Boy and the Dog - Hardcover

by **Seishu Hase** (Author), **Alison Watts** (Translator)

**"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.

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 Biography

**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 _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.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.13 x 7.15 x 5.33 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 15, 2022

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