num_pages: 208
description: In a compendium of poems, parables, essays, and epigrams, the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature movingly recounts his return to his boyhood province in rural Poland and reflects on the life of the people and their animals there.
language: English
title: A Roadside Dog
titlecomplete: A Roadside Dog
genres: Literature, Polish Literature, Essays, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories, Poland
ratings_count: 498
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike)
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux