The Dog: Vintage Contemporaries

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."