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Netherland

Joseph O'Neill

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#188 of 8,085 books · #90 in Fiction

Won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2009). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Netherland won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek 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. As the two men share their vastly different experiences of contemporary immigrant life in America, an unforgettable portrait emerges of an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.

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Publisher
4th Estate
ISBN-13
9780307388773
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Immigration and identityPost-9/11 New YorkFriendship and displacement

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