if they were given human intelligence. And so it begins a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs who an overnighting at a Toronto veterinary dinic. Suddenly capable of move complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, prefeming the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change The gods walch from above as the dogs venture into thcir nenty unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themsehres, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poct, and Majnoun forges a relationship sib a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks André Alexiss contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks

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