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Author: Zusak, Markus

New South Wales

Published on 23 January 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 240 pages
144 x 224 x 26 | 370g

‘Truthful and often very funny and raw this is as true a book about a dog as you will find’ TelegraphFrom one of the world’s great storytellers and author of The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, this is a tender, motley and exquisitely written memoir about dogs, love and nature.

What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, beautiful, deadly; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm?The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property trashing, bodily injuries, stomach pumping, purest comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that needs to be seen to be believed . . . not to mention the odd police visit at some ungodly hour of the morning.

There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love and the joy and recognition of family.

Three Wild Dogs (and the truth) is the human need for both connection and disorder; but it’s also a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty but also the visceral truth of the natural world straight to our doors and into our lives, and change us forever.