Joseph ONeill reads from his new book "The Dog," October 1
In Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la, the protagonist struggles with his new position as the \u201cfamily officer\u201d of the Batros family. And he struggles, even more helplessly, with the \u201cdoghouse,\u201d a seemingly inescapable condition of culpability in which he feels himself constantly trapped. \u201cThe Dog\u201d has been longlisted for the Man Booker prize.\n\nJoseph O\u2019Neill is the author of five books, including \u201cNetherland\u201d (which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year for 2008 by The New York Times.