Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)
by By ONeill, Joseph
Category: Fiction , Literary

New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after  his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant  New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks  to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon,  begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. As the two men share their  vastly different experiences of contemporary immigrant life in America, an unforgettable  portrait emerges of an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every  race and nationality.