Yellow Dog
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About This Novel
After Han Meow is brutally attacked on the head in the garden of a London pub, his wife and daughter find themselves living with a stranger - an elusive, violent, vengeful man with amnesia: "His condition is like the twenty-first century: one wants to wake up from it." While it may come as a shock to his family, Han Mio's new personality fits perfectly with the city and era in which he lives. Because this is the vicious London of tabloid journalist Clint Smoker, whose daily reports of sexual illicit relationships and outrageous scandals are as false as the noose around his neck. In this world, the King of England keeps a Chinese mistress in Paris and tries to prevent a video of his 15-year-old daughter having an affair in a bathtub from spreading on the Internet. In this world there are killers, pornographers, tycoons and displaced royalty. This is a world where smart people do unspeakable things and bodyguards offer no protection. "Yellow Dog" is Martin Amis's best work: humorous, intense, cunning, and profound. Consistently, Amis explores the entire edifice of patriarchy and masculinity; the violence that engenders between men; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanishing dreams that could protect our future and our descendants.
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