The Dog's Tale A Life In The Buda Hills

by Drew, Rani

• ISBN13: 9788792632043
• ISBN10: 8792632041
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-09-01
• Publisher: Whyte Tracks

Summary

Bela is rescued as a puppy and raised by a young woman and her mother in the Buda Hills overlooking Budapest.
He observes, listens, and learns about the world around him and his life is full and happy until tragedy strikes. Then he
must make a decision.

On one level a heart warming story told by a small dog during unsettled times. On another level it is a literary work with the Kafakesque element of first person narration by a domestic animal in which the existentialist perceptions of the dog form a critique of the human world.

The Dog's Tale draws on the Indian Panchtantra stories, the Buddhist Jatakas and tales of the Chinese Zodiac.

Author Biography

Dr RANI DREW (Lit., Phil) has taught in universities in Singapore, China and Hungary. During 1999-2000 she was
a lecturer at the University of Pécs in Hungary, where she taught theatre workshops, English literature, psychoanalysis
and gender studies. Her plays 'Shakespeare & Me' and the 'The III-Act Hamlet' were performed for Shakespearean Festivals in Romania, and won prizes. The Hungarian translation of the former also won a prize. Her play 'Caliban, a sequel to Shakespeare's The Tempest' was given a reading-performance by the Blue Elephant Theatre, London and Bradford's Burning, was rehearsed-read at Attic Theatre, Wimbledon. 'Eggs for Education', a short play about "top-up" fees, was staged in Cambridge.

She has published articles on Freud, women's writing and post-colonial literature. Upcoming works: “Text as Dream -
instinctual life in Literature” will be published by Whyte Tracks in 2016

Table of Contents

Word First
The Fact of Genealogy
A Declaration of Rights
My New home
Bedtime Stories
History Lessons
My First Holiday
The Neighbourhood
Death in the Family
The Nights
The Boy at the Gate
The Extended Family
Old Man Winter
Spring Carnival
Spring Mating
Shopping in Town
The Passing of Time
Harsh Winds
Cyclones of War
Mistress's New Job
Carers & Kennels
The English Couple
Being a Guest
Back at Home
The Day of Departure