© Leda, 2009
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans: his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack and he spent two strange years in New York's Chelsea Hotel. Lost in a country he'd regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place: the thriving but almost invisible world of New York cricket, in which immigrants from Asia and the West Indies play a beautiful, mystifying game on the city's most marginal parks. 'Netherland' is a novel of belonging and not belonging and the uneasy state in between. It is a novel of a marriage foundering and recuperating, and of the shallows and depths of male friendship.
Fourth Estate 2008
Translated into: Czech, Spanish, Croatian, Romanian
Gill Coleridge
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