The Dog: A Novel
Joseph O'Neill
The Dog: A Novel
Joseph O'Neill
A New York Times Notable Book
Nominated for the Man Booker Prize
In this extraordinary, both comic and philosophically profound novel, the acclaimed author of Netherland uncovers the hidden contours of a glittering Middle Eastern city-and the quiet dilemmas of modernity. When our unnamed hero, a self-sabotaging and oddly existential lawyer, finds his life in New York falling apart, he seizes an opportunity to flee to Dubai, taking a mysterious job for a fabulously wealthy Lebanese family. As he struggles with his position as the family officer of the capricious Batros brothers, he also struggles with the doghouse, a condition of culpability in which he feels trapped, even as he composes endless electronic correspondence-both sent and unsent-in an attempt to find a way out.
An unforgettable fable for our globalized times, The Dog is told with Joseph O'Neill’s hallmark eloquence, empathy, and stylistic mastery.
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