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Netherland

by Joseph O'Neill
Netherland - Thryft
Netherland - Thryft

Unlikely friendship amidst New York's chaos.

Recommended for those interested in exploring complex relationships and the nuances of cultural identity in post-9/11 New York. The book beautifully captures the spirit of camaraderie, ambition and fallibility through the protagonists' shared love for cricket, while also delving into themes such as the nature of home, secrets and regrets.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2008)
  • Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Longlist (2009)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2009)
  • Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2009)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Netherland

by Joseph O'Neill
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ISBN: 9780007269068
Authors: Joseph O'Neill
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Date of Publication: 2008-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.41
(rated by 18171 readers)

Description

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an “other” New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck’s particular brand of naivete and chutzpah--by his ability to a hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.Netherland gives us both a flawlessly drawn picture of a little-known New York and a story of much larger, and brilliantly achieved the grand strangeness and fading promise of 21st century America from an outsider’s vantage point, and the complicated relationship between the American dream and the particular dreamers. Most immediately, though, it is the story of one man--of a marriage foundering and recuperating in its mystery and ordinariness, of the shallows and depths of male friendship, of mourning and memory. Joseph O’Neill’s prose, in its conscientiousness and beauty, involves us utterly in the struggle for meaning that governs any single life.
 

Unlikely friendship amidst New York's chaos.

Recommended for those interested in exploring complex relationships and the nuances of cultural identity in post-9/11 New York. The book beautifully captures the spirit of camaraderie, ambition and fallibility through the protagonists' shared love for cricket, while also delving into themes such as the nature of home, secrets and regrets.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2008)
  • Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Longlist (2009)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2009)
  • Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2009)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.