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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