When living in many different places you can seek many chance of understanding.

Artists Space, http://artistsspace.org/ founded in 1972, is one of the New York City’s oldest alternative galleries. Both by including young artists in innovative group shows and by organizing periodic workshops, over the years it continues to support up-and-coming talent. Artists Space is accessible via elevator from street level and has wheelchair accessible non-gender-segregated toilet facilities. Artists Space was founded byTrudie Grace Irving Sandler, as a pilot project with the goal of assisting young, emerging artists, and quickly became a leading organization in the downtown alternative arts scene in New York.

JOSEPH O’NEILL is an Irish novelist. His novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He speaks English, French and Dutch, and much like his Netherland protagonist Hans, he played club cricket for many years at the Staten Island Cricket Club. Since 1998 he has lived in New York City, but he was born in Cork (Ireland) on a February, 1964. As a toddler, with his parents he spent time in Mozambique and in Turkey, then he lived in Iran. From the age of six, he lived in the Netherlands. In 1987, after being called to the English Bar, he spent a year writing his first novel.

The most exacting work of fiction we’ve yet had about life, after the World Trade Center fell. In this complex times, this book was lauded for its dissection of American life and perils of globalization. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, Netherland it concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York, who starts playing cricket at the Staten Island Cricket Club. Hans van den Broek, a Dutch financial analyst living in London, flashes back to the years he spent in New York City, before and in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. He is preparing to return to Manhattan for the funeral of a friend. A Trinidadian immigrant, guides him through Staten Island Cricket Club.

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