The Dog - O'Neill, Joseph
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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…mehr

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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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Joseph O'Neill is the author of the novels Netherland (which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), The Breezes, and This Is the Life, and of a family history, Blood-Dark Track. He lives in New York and teaches at Bard College.
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'I'm in love with this book ... It's superbly written and very very funny and also very true' David Aaronovitch

'On page after page, O'Neill can still dazzle as a compellingly intelligent writer. Everywhere you look, there's a shimmering portrait of modernity waiting to be glimpsed ... [An] ambitious, lucidly thought-through novel' Guardian

'Our only truly international writer ... Breathtaking ... O'Neill's writing reflects the individual's concerns in our desolate modern world in prose that is illuminating, amusing, sometimes beautiful, but never showy ... A joy to read ... Supremely insightful and intelligent ... You can open the book anywhere and find sparkling sentences that perfectly describe what is momentarily in focus ... Original and brilliant' Irish Independent

'O'Neill has become a writer extraordinarily attuned to the global and the post-national ... Like "Netherland", THE DOG has captured the zeitgeist ... This is where O'Neill feels at home: telling the stories of those who cease to belong' Telegraph

'Sharp, sad and sometimes hilarious, this is a fable for our times' Daily Mail

'A mercilessly absurd portrait of the city's wealthy residents ... Our narrator is like Woody Allen trapped inside a Kafka novel ... Brilliant ... One of the wittiest critiques of modern, materialistic life that you'll read for a long while' The Times

'The best comic novel I've read for ages' The Scotsman

'Enraged, brutal, witty and at times brilliant' Sunday Times

'Erudite and deliciously comic ... like a mix of Martin Amis and Thomas Bernhard ...With consummate elegance, THE DOG turns in on itself in imitation of the dreadful circling and futility of consciousness itself ... Its wit and brio keeps us more temporarily alive than we usually allow ourselves to be' New York Times Book Review

'A mordantly funny and, surprisingly for these times, deeply moral tale of lost love and economic betrayal' John Banville, Observer, Books of the Year

"Der Hund" ist das schmerzhafteste Buch über die Ort-, Trost- und Sinnlosigkeit der Gegenwart, das sich denken lässt. Den Befund kann man schwer ertragen, O'Neills Roman dagegen nur bejubeln: Er ist virtuos komponiert, elegant, zum Niederknien gut geschrieben, ein Triumph der Form über die banalität des postmodernen postdemokratischen Postkapitalismus. DIE WELT…mehr
"Der Hund" ist das schmerzhafteste Buch über die Ort-, Trost- und Sinnlosigkeit der Gegenwart, das sich denken lässt. Den Befund kann man schwer ertragen, O'Neills Roman dagegen nur bejubeln: Er ist virtuos komponiert, elegant, zum Niederknien gut geschrieben, ein Triumph der Form über die banalität des postmodernen postdemokratischen Postkapitalismus. DIE WELT