Netherland

Joseph O'Neill · 2008 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Hans van den Broek, a Dutch equities analyst, is left alone in a New York hotel after his wife takes their son to London in the wake of 9/11. He takes up cricket on Staten Island, where he meets the Trinidadian entrepreneur Chuck Ramkissoon. It won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award; O'Neill is Irish-born.

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