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After the 9/11 terrorist attack, Dutch equities analyst Hans van den Broek, his British wife, and his young son are forced to flee their devastated TriBeCa loft and find themselves living in the once-glamorous, now-dilapidated Chelsea Hotel. Hans's wife, horrified at the destruction and appalled at American politics, soon flees back to London with their son in tow. To fill the emotional hole in his life, Hans turns to cricket, that anachronistic and civilized sport, as an escape from his trauma and confusion, and finds himself becoming a friend, and sometimes accomplice, to an ambitious wheeler-dealer from Trinidad with dreams of building a cricket arena in Brooklyn. With a wry sense of humor and occasional unexpected stabs of poignancy, author Joseph O'Neill creates a wonderfully specific novel set against a backdrop of globalized crisis, and fractured, frightened families. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2008 and by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2008.
| Details | | Series: | Vintage Contemporaries Series |
| Size | | Length: | 255 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell."
(05/18/2008)
"I don't know whether Joseph O'Neill jumped out of his bath in Manhattan shrieking 'Eureka!' when he realized that, of all the possible subjects in the world, he had to write a novel about playing cricket in New York City, but he should have. Despite cricket's seeming irrelevance to America, the game makes his exquisitely written novel NETHERLAND a large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read."
(05/26/2008)
"Always sensitive and intelligent, NETHERLAND tells the fragmented story of a man in exile -- from home, family and, most poignantly, from himself." ·
(06/01/2008)
"[NETHERLAND] is...[a] great American novel,....full of vividly descriptive passages that possess a heightened, almost hallucinatory brilliance....[It] is...a meditation on individual and communal loss, a hymn to New York in all its bruised, and bruising, vitality and a glimpse of the various, often surreal, ways in which immigrants embrace their new life while holding on fiercely to the one they have left behind."
(06/01/2008)
"It is hard to know which is stranger - that a great American novel has been written about cricket, or that a great cricket novel should be set in America. But both are true. NETHERLAND, a state-of-the-nation exploration of contemporary America, is ambitious, intelligent and deeply perceptive."
(06/20/2008)
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