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Netherland

This is about the novel. For the country, see Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....

Netherland (2008) is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill

Joseph O'Neill (born 1964)

Joseph O'Neill is a novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction....
. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Reviews
Netherland was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review where Dwight Garner (NYTBR senior editor) called it "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London

London

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Netherland (2008) is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill

Joseph O'Neill (born 1964)

Joseph O'Neill is a novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction....
. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Reviews

Netherland was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review where Dwight Garner (NYTBR senior editor) called it "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
after the World Trade Center fell". It would later that year make the prestigious New York Times Book Review list of "10 Best Books of 2008" as chosen by the papers editors.

Literary critic for the New Yorker
New Yorker

New Yorker may refer to:* A resident of New York state * A resident of New York City * The New Yorker, a magazine* New Yorker , a German clothing company...
James Wood

James Wood (critic)

James Wood is an England literary criticism and novelist. He is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard and a literary critic at The New Yorker....
called it "one of the most remarkable postcolonial books I have ever read"; and said it has been "consistently misread as a 9/11 novel, which stints what is most remarkable about it: that it is a postcolonial re-writing of The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the United States author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922....
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Awards and nominations

Netherland won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year....
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In the weeks leading up the announcement of the 2008 Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary award awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Republic of Ireland....
, Netherland was spoken of by some literary pundits as being the favourite to win. However, on September 9, 2008, the Booker nominee shortlist was announced and the novel, surprisingly at least for some critics at the New York Times, failed to make the list. The book was also nominated for the Warwick Prize for Writing

Warwick Prize for Writing

Launched by the University of Warwick in July 2008, the Warwick Prize for Writing is an international cross-disciplinary prize, worth ?50,000, that will be given biennially for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that will change with every award....
(2008/9) and made it to the long list of that prize announced in November 2008.

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, Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is an England novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta list of 20 best young authors....
review of Netherland from The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs published in New York City....
(Interview with Joseph O'Neill)