Dog: A Novel (First edition.)

***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOK PRIZE 2014***The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai.Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis.

In Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la, he struggles with his new position as the ';family officer' of the capricious and very rich Batros family. And he struggles, even more helplessly, with the ';doghouse,' a seemingly inescapable condition of culpability in which he feels himself constantly trappedeven if he's just going to the bathroom, or reading e-mail, or scuba diving.

A comic and philosophically profound exploration of what has become of humankind's moral progress, The Dog is told with Joseph O'Neill's hallmark eloquence, empathy, and storytelling mastery.

It is a brilliantly original, achingly funny fable for our globalized times.From the Hardcover edition.