Joseph O'Neill: The Dog
The Dog
Buch
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 06/2015
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780307472946
- Bestellnummer: 6641888
- Umfang: 256 Seiten
- Gewicht: 275 g
- Maße: 203 x 134 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 9.6.2015
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A New York Times Notable BookNominated 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.