Strålende by Roddy Doyle Hardback

The Black Dog came at night. It came like a cloud - it was the cloud. A giant cloud that covered the whole city. And the city - the sky over the city - grew darker and darker. For a while. Then the black cloud grew smaller and smaller, until it was just a small cloud that descended towards the earth. And its shape became doglike. And the doglike shape turned into a dog. The Black Dog of Depression had entered Dublin. The siblings Gloria and Rayzer must save their Uncle Ben. The Black Dog has gotten its claws into him. At least, that's what the children have heard their grandmother say. And, she says, the Dog has also snatched Dublin's laughing muscle. Gloria and Rayzer are very brave, but the Black Dog is scary, and they can't win over it alone. Soon, however, the rest of Dublin's children come to their rescue - and then the animals in Dublin Zoo - and also some naughty seagulls. But perhaps the greatest help is actually a very ordinary word, which all the children shout at the top of their lungs? Strålende is a moving and different story about how children perceive adult themes such as depression, unemployment and financial crises. The book was written by bestselling author Roddy Doyle, who was born in Dublin, where he still lives today. Many of Doyle's works, including Strålende, take place in Dublin and are about the sometimes challenging lives of ordinary Irish people - but the books appeal to readers all over the world. Roddy Doyle has won many awards for his books. Among other things, he was awarded the Irish Children's Book of the Year award in 2008, and in 2013 he was nominated for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. Doyle is also a co-founder of Fighting Words, a writing school where children and young people learn to write their own stories, comics and plays. Strålende is Doyle's seventh children's book. 1st edition from 2015 in Turbine Publishing ISBN: 978-87-406-0318-7 Weight: 425 grams