Theme: Feral children

The Boy who Ran with the Gazelles

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A desert nomad woman has no milk, so brings her pet gazelle for her son to nurse. One day the boy and the gazelle wander off, and the pet gazelle finds a herd of her own kind. She protects the boy and he learns to run and feed himself. Hunters discover and capture him. He [...]

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Dog Boy

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 7, 2007

Given to the Great Fater on the night of his birth, Boy is reared by a dog in a village whose people barely tolerate him, despite signs that he is favored, then travels far, striving to find his rightful place in the brutal world of humans.

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