Overview
One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and dogs and to 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 dogs 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 dogs 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 authors 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: Seishu Hase
- | Publisher: Viking
- | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 0593300416
- | ISBN-13: 9780593300411
