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Belka, Why Don´t You Bark?
Hideo Furukawa
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Description for Belka, Why Don´t You Bark?
hardcover. New from Haikasoru - an epic tale told through they eyes of four military dogs after the retreat of Japanese troops from the island of Kiska in 1943. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 610.
The history of the contemporary world, as seen through the story of WWII military dogs and their descendants.
Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? begins in 1943, when Japanese troops retreat from the Aleutian island of Kiska, leaving four military dogs behind. One of them dies in isolation, and the others are taken under the protection of U.S. troops. Meanwhile, in the USSR, a KGB military dog handler kidnaps the daughter of a Japanese yakuza. Named after the Russian astronaut dog Strelka, the girl develops a psychic connection with canines. A multi-generational epic as seen through the eyes of man’s best ... Read more
The history of the contemporary world, as seen through the story of WWII military dogs and their descendants.
Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? begins in 1943, when Japanese troops retreat from the Aleutian island of Kiska, leaving four military dogs behind. One of them dies in isolation, and the others are taken under the protection of U.S. troops. Meanwhile, in the USSR, a KGB military dog handler kidnaps the daughter of a Japanese yakuza. Named after the Russian astronaut dog Strelka, the girl develops a psychic connection with canines. A multi-generational epic as seen through the eyes of man’s best ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Haikasoru
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781421549378
SKU
9781421549378
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About Hideo Furukawa
Hideo Furukawa was born in Fukushima in 1966. He dropped out of Waseda University’s literature program. He was nominated for the Naoki Prize with Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? in 2005 and won the Mishima Yukio Prize with Love in 2006. Furukawa has been active in giving readings as an expression of literature and has collaborated beyond the genre of fiction ... Read more
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