…With pity, rage, compassion, and despair, Dog shows the dreadful toll war takes on man and beast. In the tradition of the best war novels, Yishay Ron reminds us of our confounding inability to learn from the past—while affirming, often with gallows humor, the fragility and validity of life…
—David Bezmozgis, Author, The Betrayers: A Novel

Ishay Ron’s gripping, haunting Dog performs the magic act that all novelists seek but rarely achieve: to lure readers inside —Thane Rosenbaum, Author, The Golems of Gotham

Terrible and wonderful, heartbreaking and heartfelt—if literature has any hope of making us better people, it will be through the brutal, beautiful honesty of works like Ishi Ron’s remarkable “Dog.”
—Shalom Auslander, author of Hope: A Tragedy and Feh: A Memoir

In the tradition of the best war novels, Yishai Ron’s “Dog” reminds us of our confounding inability to learn from the past. With pity, rage, compassion, and despair, Ron shows the dreadful toll war takes on man and beast. The novel also provides an unsentimental and humane depiction of contemporary Israel, a country many people believe they know. In the end, and often with gallows humor, Dog affirms the fragility and validity of life.
—David Bezmozgis, author of The Betrayers

A formidable, painful novel. Rare emotional intensity.
—Zeruya Shalev, author of Pain

A profound, original, thought-provoking novel. To read it is to have your heart broken.
—Noa Yedlin, author of Stockholm

Ishi Ron’s unsettling novel, “Dog”, serves up a chilling account of despair, redemption, and murder in the aftermath of war. Returning from Gaza to Tel Aviv, a decorated Israeli officer who has assumed the name ‘Geller’ drowns his trauma in heroin as he navigates a new life among misfit junkies. Enter Dog, the novel’s eponymous mongrel, whooffers a deeply perceptive, highly canine perspective on Geller’s suffering. Both convincing and disquieting, Ron adds his powerful voice to a rising generation of veteran novelists who capture the psychological pain and dislocation of modern warfare.
—Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein’s Beach House

“Dog” should come with its own Surgeon General warning: This highly suspenseful and unexpectedly lyrical book could be hazardous to your health. Read at your own risk!
—Roya Hakakian, author of A Beginner’s Guide to America for the Immigrant and the Curious

“Dog” took me by storm and struck a deep, emotional chord in me. It is a rollercoaster ride into the certainty of uncertainty, a search for sense and sensitivity within the pain, anxiety, and fear that face those who were once glorified for valor and heroism and are now left out in the cold to fight for their lives. For their survival. For their body and soul. This is a powerful story on so many personal, social, and political levels, and I realized that I must turn it into a movie. My movie. Sooner rather than later. Especially today. Especially now.”
—Eran Riklis, director, writer, and producer

“Yishai Ron’s gripping, haunting “Dog” performs the magic act that all novelists seek but rarely achieve: to lure readers inside worlds they have neither lived nor can ever imagine—and yet, somehow, know that they have arrived. This is a postwar novel par excellence, with its lingering torments and redemptions of the aftermath.
—Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible

“Dog” reads like a cry that rolls forward at an incredible pace, carried by the flow of the plot. At times, there’s a desire to pause, to grasp onto something at the edges, but—just like the characters in the book—you can’t. The characters are tough. Life has struck them hard, and they are laid bare, yet they are portrayed with a compassionate gaze, with empathy and honesty.”
—Yishai Sarid, author of The Third Temple, Victorious, and The Memory Monster