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by Joseph O'Neill

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Netherland

In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans -- his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack, as if that event revealed the cracks and silences in their marriage, and he spent two strange years in New York's Chelsea Hotel, passing stranger evenings with the eccentric residents. Lost in a country he'd regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place -- the thriving but almost invisible world of New York cricket, in which immigrants from Asia and the West Indies play a beautiful, mystifying game on the city's most marginal parks. It was during these games that Hans befriends Chuck Ramkissoon, who dreamed of establishing the city's first proper cricket field. Over the course of a summer, Hans grew to share Chuck's dream and Chuck's sense of American possibility -- until he began to glimpse the darker meaning of his new friend's activities and ambitions.' Netherland' is a novel of belonging and not belonging, and the uneasy state in between. It is a novel of a marriage foundering and recuperating, and of the shallows and depths of male friendship. With it, Joseph O'Neill has taken the anxieties and uncertainties of our new century and fashioned a work of extraordinary beauty and brilliance.

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    Best of the Booker Longlist!

    One of the most notable literary fiction picks of 2008. Quite how Joseph O'Neill's take on a stranger's life in post-9/11 New York did not make the Booker shortlist is quite beyond me. Now on the Richard and Judy list and picking up the recognition it deserves.

    Review by Daniel of the London Colney Borders on 2009-01-23 12:49:07

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    Netherland - Joseph O'Neill

    An exquisitely written novel giving an insight into the mind of the average Bush administrated American. In this novel O'Neill captures the thoughts of one man's struggle with divorce and the sanctuary he finds at the cricket crease. This fine piece of literature is saturated with vocabulary we have come to expect of the industry nominated authors (At times it felt like he was trying too hard to impress with the depth of narrative)If you like cricket, you will get on far better with this book, but it really is not a necessity.

    Review by David Taylor of the Swansea Borders on 2009-02-05 17:21:03

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    Gripping

    O'Neill confronts the dislocation felt as the tide of events such as 9/11 overwhelm individuals, turning the familiar into the strange.

    Review by Ernie of the London - Oxford Street Borders on 2009-04-07 15:23:48

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ISBN

9780007275700

Published
January 5th 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers
Category
Modern Fiction
Number of pages
300
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM

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