Netherland

Resumen del libro

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned and left alone after his English wife and son return to London. He stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, through which he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic Trinidadian named Chuck, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country,- an emergent, unforgettable portrait of an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year.

Biografía del autor

Joseph O'Neill was born 1964 in Cork, and is an Irish lawyer, novelist and non-fiction writer.<br><br>O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. <br><br>Before Netherland O'Neill had written two previous novels, This Is The Life and The Breezes, and a memoir, Blood Dark Track. His most recent book, The Dog, is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.<br><br>O'Neill also writes literary and cultural criticism, most regularly for the Atlantic Monthly.<br><br>Since 1998 he has lived in New York City.