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The Dog

The Dog

Author(s): Joseph O'Neill

Location(s): Dubai

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014

The new novel from Joseph O’Neill, his first since the Man Booker longlisted and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning ‘Netherland’.

In 2007, a New York attorney bumps into an old college buddy – and accepts his friend’s offer of a job in Dubai, as the overseer of an enormous family fortune. Haunted by the collapse of his relationship and hoping for a fresh start, our strange hero begins to suspect that he has exchanged one inferno for another.

A funny and wholly original work of international literature, ‘The Dog’ is led by a brilliantly entertaining anti-hero. Imprisoned by his endless powers of reasoning, hemmed in by the ethical demands of globalized life, he is fatefully drawn towards the only logical response to our confounding epoch.

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This is Dubai with all its wealth and extremity. Interesting choice once again for the MAN Booker, long listed as it is 2014. It is post modern writing, and the style is very individual.

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