The Dog

ISBN-13: 9780007275755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str.

Joseph ONeill

Opis

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The new novel from Joseph O'Neill, his first since NETHERLAND. "O'Neill, in this book, has come of age as a novelist ...a comic masterpiece ...as mordantly funny as the best of stand-up comedy ...Superb' John Banville, New York Review of Books 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.

Recenzje

"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

O autorze

Joseph O'Neill lives in New York and teaches at Bard College. He is the author of four novels, Netherland (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008),The Dog, This Is the Life and The Breezes, as well as a memoir, Blood-Dark Track. His short stories have been published in the New Yorker and Harper's, and his literary criticism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Irish Times, the Atlantic, Granta and other publications.