Dog Meows, the Cat Barks he mines with new depth

he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father

the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson)

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the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost

Dog Meows, the Cat Barks he mines with new depthSato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of Islamic piety. For years, Sato outwardly obeys his father, but all the while the boy chafes at the strictures of his religious routine, longing for everyday pleasures and vowing to himself that he will "become a child who was not pious." His freewheeling