"The Power of Dogs" Author: [US] Thomas Savage / Publisher: New Star Publishing House Douban 2022 Foreign Literature (Fiction)

★ The movie of the same name won the 2022 Oscar for Best Director and the Golden Globe for Best Feature Film! Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and directed by Jane Campion!

- Received 12 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and has received a total of 258 awards and 304 nominations worldwide (numbers are constantly changing).

★ A narrative that transcends its time – “an insight that is as sharp as absolute pitch.”

- Received consistent praise from The New York Times, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews!

- The Guardian: "Some people are hailing it as the next Stoner, but in fact Dog Power is better!"

- Director Campion: "Dog Force is a sublime novel that deserves to be adapted for the big screen. It's a gripping story that weaves themes of loneliness and patience, nostalgia and betrayal into a delicately plotted story with wonderful tension and an unexpected and satisfying ending. I can't stop thinking about it, it really haunts me."

★ A gentle, bloodless revenge.

- "He spit on the world if the world spit on him first."

- He is smart, arrogant, cruel, and affectionate, and in his heart there is a person who has seen the shadow of Inuyama; he bullies me, insults me, laughs at me, and belittles me, but he cannot see the ferocity under my young and pale face. He is exhausted, and once his wound is exposed, he will surely die; I am at my ease, and I will definitely respond with ambiguous sharpness.

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Phil lives with his younger brother George and is still single. He hates all new things: cars, bathtubs, pianos, and even more so, sissies; he wants everything to stay the same: the ranch, the cowboys, the pond with secrets, and his domination of George from beginning to end.

One day, George suddenly announced that he had married the widow in town and brought her and her sixteen-year-old son Peter into the house where they had grown up. Phil was furious.

In Phil's opinion, Peter was afraid of sunlight, never played ball, always read and stayed alone, and would fold paper flowers and pretend to be a high-class person all day. By chance, Phil discovered that this "sissy" was actually quite courageous, and he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​"reforming" him.

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"The Power of Dogs" is a gripping and tense novel that can be called a literary work of art.

--Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

If there were still justice (or greater taste) in the literary market, this novel would undoubtedly have been at the top of the bestseller list for the past thirty years.

——New York Times Book Review

Thomas Savage is a pitch-perfect insight writer, an underrated, under-celebrated writer who is finally getting a big dose of attention.

——Kirkus Reviews

"The Power of the Dog" is creepily good, an intense and powerful novel.

——Publishers Weekly

Thomas Savage's debut novel was already a minor classic, but his follow-up, Dog Power, is even better.

——Library Journal

The writing style of "Dog Power" is concise, exquisite, and gives people goose bumps. The actions of the characters in the book have a sense of Greek epic fatalism, but they still shock readers.

—— "Literary Hub" website