by Joseph O'Neill · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007275700
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«Netherland» is the contemporary novel by Joseph O'Neill, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (300 pages, in English).
After 9/11, Hans, a Dutch banker in New York, is left alone when his wife and son return to London. Lost, he discovers the cricket that immigrants play in the parks, a world that reconnects him with his childhood. His friendship with Chuck Ramkissoon, a charismatic Trinidadian, reveals another side of the city and of the American dream.
Originally published in 2008, the novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize.
Suitable for book clubs and for readers of contemporary fiction about post-9/11 New York and the immigrant experience.
Joseph O'Neill is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
