Netherland
By: Joseph O'Neill
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781407434056
Subjects: Cricket stories; Male friendship; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Separation (Psychology); Fiction
Description: In 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead in a New York canal. In London, Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11 and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans - his English wife Rachel left after the attack and he spent two strange years in the Chelsea Hotel, passing evenings with the eccentric residents. Lost in a country he'd regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in the almost invisible world of New York cricket, in which immigrants from Asia and the West Indies play on the city's most marginal parks. It was during these games that Hans befriended Chuck, who dreamed of the city's first proper cricket field. Hans grew to share Chuck's dream - until he began to glimpse the darker meaning of his new friend's activities and ambitions... [Cover].
Notes: Originally published:London: Fourth Estate, 2008.