Two friends, the mongrel Raf and the fox terrier Shustrik, are running from an experimental station where cruel experiments are carried out on animals. But the long-awaited freedom is fraught with new dangers and challenges. The novel by the master of English literature Richard Adams, the author of “Ship Hill” and “The Voyage of the Rabbits,” revered along with Carroll and Tolkien, is classified by critics as “fantasy about animals.” “Plague Dogs” is a philosophical travel novel, a fascinating story about the adventures of two dogs who escaped from a biological laboratory, where cruel experiments were carried out on them. Based on the book in 1982, the animated film of the same name produced the effect of a bomb exploding: an agitated public, animal protection societies and Greenpeace accused the governments of almost all countries of inhumanity, the extermination of our smaller brothers and the ongoing development of biological weapons.

A smart, subtle, truly humane book, after reading which a person will never be able to treat animals cruelly...TIMES