Netherland - Joseph O'Neill

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR WIFE TAKES YOUR CHILD AND LEAVES YOU ALONE IN A CITY OF GHOSTS?

Hans van den Broek chooses cricket. Alone in a terrorized city, struggling to understand the disappearance from his life of people, places and feelings, he seeks refuge in the game of his childhood. But New York cricket is a long way from the tranquil sport he grew up with. It’s a rough, almost secret game, played in scrubby, marginal urban parks, by people the city doesn’t see – people like Chuck Ramkissoon. Years later, when a body is pulled out of a New York canal, hands tied behind its back, Hans is forced to remember his unusual friendship with Chuck – dreamer, visienary, and perhaps something darker