THE DOG

Book ID/图书代码： 11701213B65323

English Summary/英文概要： 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： *** 入围2014年英国布克奖***，

2007年，纽约的一位律师无意间撞见了自己曾经的同窗好友-并接受了他的这个朋友为他提供的一份在迪拜的工作，为一个财阀家族的财产管理员。渴望能出人头地，又苦于没有一个良好的社会人际关系网的这位律师希翼着自己能有一个崭新的开始，而我们故事中这位奇怪的英雄又开始怀疑自己是否陷入了另一个人间炼狱。 一部风趣而又完全原创性的国际文学作品，《朋友》由一名精采而有趣的非主流英雄展开。 主人公深陷于自己那无休止的推理情节中，受制于全球化的道德准绳要求下，他注定是我们这个大杂烩时代下唯一的逻辑倒映。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014

“pitch-perfect prose… clever, witty, and profoundly insightful, this is a beautifully crafted narrative about a man undone by a soulless society” Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Shades of Kafka and Conrad permeate O’Neill’s thoughtful modern fable of exile, a sad story that comments darkly on the human condition” Kirkus (starred review) “O’Neill is an extraordinarily gifted writer, the most interesting Irish novelist at work today… 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… O’Neill is supremely insightful and intelligent. The logic of his anti-hero’s internal arguing is endlessly fascinating and his observations are often very funny. And it helps that you can open the book anywhere and find sparkling sentences that perfectly describe what is momentarily in focus… his work is original and brilliant.” John Spain, Irish Independent
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/book-reviews-adrift-in-a-crazy-world-with-joseph-oneill-30490335.html
“NETHERLAND…did not make the (Man Booker) shortlist, but THE DOG really should. It is the sort of enraged, brutal, witty and at times brilliant book that leaves you worrying about the mental state of its writer.” Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
“excellent fourth novel…A finely crafted absurdist drama, written in sometimes thrillingly convoluted but never clunky prose.” Metro
“[O’Neill] dazzle[s] as a compellingly intelligent writer. Everywhere you look, there’s a shimmering portrait of modernity waiting to be glimpsed” Robert Collins, The Guardian
“[an] urbane, accessible novel with a global view” Ben East, The National (Abu Dhabi)
“[THE DOG] has captured the zeitgeist” Duncan White, Sunday Telegraph
“O’Neill has fun painting 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” Fiona Wilson, The Times