Dog Meows, the Cat Barks Contributions from featured expert Stuart

Contributions from featured expert Stuart Atkinson

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)

as if suddenly gaining a new dimension

But there's a backstory here

Dog Meows, the Cat Barks Contributions from featured expert StuartSato 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