THE DOG

Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, the hero of this novel leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange de sert metropolis. In a Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-La, our protagonist struggles with his new p osition as the family officer of the capricious and very rich Batros family. And he struggles, even more helplessly, with the dog house, a seemingly inescapable condition of culpability in which he feels himself constantly trappedeven if hes just going to the bathroom, or ...[Read more]