About The Book Joseph O'Neill's Netherland is the mesmerizing story of a European man living in New York City after 9/11, with two troubled loves--that for his wife, and that for his adopted country. Told in a lyrical voice, the story of his journey involves an immersion in the cricket-playing subculture of the city, a tragic friendship with a Trinidadian immigrant, and a darkening. · Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland” is 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 bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. · In Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland,” cricket is at once an immigrant’s imagined community, an emblem of foreignness, and, most poignantly, a dream of America. Photograph by Chris Steele Is Accessible For Free: False.
Joseph O'Neill is the author of the novels The Dog, Netherland (which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), The Breezes, and This Is the Life. He has also written a family history, Blood-Dark. More about Joseph O'Neill. Product Details. Category: Literary Fiction. Netherland Joseph O'Neill, Knopf Doubleday pp. ISBN Summary 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. Netherland () is a novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.
Netherland traces the story of Hans van den Broek, a financial analyst for a major bank and a cricket enthusiast, across a period of social turmoil following the 9/11 terror attacks on New York City (where Hans was living at the time) and of personal turmoil, as Hans' wife Rachel moves away from him in order to gain space from him, taking their son, Jake, with her. Joseph O'Neill is an Irish barrister living in New York. He is the author of three previous novels, 'Netherland' (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize ), 'This Is the Life' and 'The Breezes', as well as a memoir, 'Blood-Dark Track'. Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland” is 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.
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