Chien blanc

About “Chien blanc”

White Dog is a non-fiction autobiographical novel by Romain Gary, originally published as a short story in Life in 1970. The full novel was released in French in 1970 by Éditions Gallimard and later in English in North America by New American Library. The story is a fictionalized account of Gary and his wife's experiences in the 1960s with a stray police dog in Alabama. The dog was trained to attack black people on sight, and the couple tried to have the dog reprogrammed. The novel reflects their efforts to confront and change the dog's behavior. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)