Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

April 1, 2022 Novels

Download Netherland by Joseph O’Neill PDF/ePub eBook free. The “Netherland” novel is about substance and structure, foundations and constructions of memory, current events, and imagination.

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“Netherland” is meandering novel with three big themes. Joseph O’Neill is the author of this novel. His previous works include the novels “This is the Life” and “The Breezes” and the non-fiction book Blood-Dark Track. This novel is about substance and structure, foundations and constructions of memory, current events, and imagination. It is a significant work about an emotionally bleak post-9/11 that is at once invigorating and reflective. It is a complex novel, moving along the timeline between a few weeks after September 11, 2001, and three years later, when the upheaval created by the terrorist attack starts to become a healing memory with persistent repercussions.

Details of life and the mindset in New York and of the U.S. at large are nicely detailed, but the most compelling narrative is the way the terrorist attack disrupts and almost annihilates the marriage of the protagonist. Interwoven with the marriage break-up is the main character’s pursuit of the game of cricket in NewYork and his involvement with a shady character who wants to popularize the game in the U.S. What’s the connection between the two story lines? The main character is Dutch, reared in England, and finds in cricket civility and comfort that has been denied him since the departure of his wife back to her native England after September 11.