📗 Libro en inglés THE DOG

‘A satirical attack on our modern, soulless society and he takes as his victim Dubai, circa 2007 … a bizarre world that more closely resembles Mikhail Bulgakov’s Russia than a corporate, cosmopolitan metropolis. 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 ‘[’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 ‘On page after page, O''Neill can still dazzle as a compellingly intelligent writer. Everywhere you look, there''s a shimmering portrait of modernity waiting to be glimpsed … [An] ambitious, lucidly thought-through novel’ Robert Collins, Guardian ‘O’Neill has become a writer extraordinarily attuned to the global and the post-national … Like “Netherland”, “The Dog” … has captured the zeitgeist … This is where O’Neill feels at home: telling the stories of those who cease to belong.’ Duncan White, Telegraph ‘An excellent fourth novel … A finely crafted absurdist drama, written in sometimes thrillingly convoluted but never clunky prose.’ Metro ‘Our only truly international writer, exploring contemporary subjects that have global resonance in books that brim with breathtaking but always carefully modulated prose … 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. … A joy to read … It''s the favourite and it deserves to win [the Booker] … Supremely insightful and intelligent … You can open the book anywhere and find sparkling sentences that perfectly describe what is momentarily in focus … Original and brilliant.’ Irish Independent