My book is a fictional account of the two years1996 to 1998Ivan lived wild with the dogs. Agent: Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Trident Media Group. By the award winning author of The Dogs of Winter, Bobbie Pyron. The Dogs of Winter was inspired by the true-life story of Ivan Mishukov, one of many thousands of children abandoned to the streets after the fall of the Soviet Union. Though some scenes of Mishka and the dogs’ trials can be a bit repetitive, their sameness underscores their unremitting and often heartbreaking battle to survive, day after day. The book’s emotional impact is immense Mishka grapples with his identity as his memories of his mother gradually fade and he becomes increasingly feral. Mishka-abandoned at age five by an abusive man who lived with (and presumably killed) Mishka’s mother-befriends a pack of bedraggled wild dogs together, they beg and forage for food, sleep in metro stations, ride trains to stay warm, and avoid military personnel intent on capturing them. Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mothers abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he. Inspired by the real-life story of a boy who survived on the streets of Moscow in the mid-1990s, the novel exposes the plight of many homeless, orphaned Russian children after the fall of the Soviet Union. As she did in A Dog’s Way Home (2011), Pyron delivers a reflective, hard-hitting story about the bond between child and dog-in this case, seven of them.
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