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Netherland
Joseph O'Neill
Publisher: Vintage | Format: Paperback | Page Count: 272
The most discussed literary novel of its year in America - a post-9/11 meditation on cricket, marriage, and immigrant New York - couldn't crack the Booker shortlist. The snub became its own news story. The book has outlived the controversy: its portrait of Chuck Ramkissoon, the Trinidadian dreamer building a cricket oval in Brooklyn, remains one of the great supporting characters in this century's fiction.
