Join Joseph O'Neill, author of the acclaimed Netherland, for a reading from his new Booker-nominated novel The Dog, which shifts Netherland‘s themes of alienation and rootlessness from post 9/11 Manhattan to Dubai. The Dog’s narrator is an unnamed New York attorney who flees to the glittering emirate to work as a legal financial factotum for the wealthy Lebanese family of a college friend–and to get over a failed relationship. Weaved into a portrait of Dubai’s gauche modernity is a novel of high comedy and dazzlingly compelling intelligence about servitude, loneliness, and cultural dislocation. Tues 9/16, 7pm.
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