{"product_id":"2940170312009","title":"The Dog: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of the best-selling and award-winning \u003ci\u003eNetherland\u003c\/i\u003e now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistraught 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 trapped-even 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Dog\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098378027248,"sku":"2940170312009","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170312009_p0.jpg?v=1763707738","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170312009","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}