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Netherland
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bookshelves: to-read, struggles-of-use, fiction, global, g_cmfrm_eire, g_cities, a-1-_-novel-fun-fascinating, a-1-_-on-my-mind, a-1-immediacy, award_other
Mar 13, 2009
bookshelves: to-read, struggles-of-use, fiction, global, g_cmfrm_eire, g_cities, a-1-_-novel-fun-fascinating, a-1-_-on-my-mind, a-1-immediacy, award_other
Won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction 2009.
I'm curious to see whether O'Neill draws any connections between the Netherlands and the origins of NYC, I have a book about how NYC is really different from the other East Coast cities due to that particular history (should try and read that one first probably, or skim and have at hand atleast..). It would seem like he would, with the title; but he could have decided that the title was enough of that, no more necessary. So that's one minor point of interest.
Reading about Cricket - lovely. Perhaps I'll grasp it that little bit more. I've been trying to get caught up due to its importance in India etc.., but aspects continue to elude me.
Also his general train-of-thoughts and ideas about place and belonging - might really like it, might not.
Him being Irish doesn't hurt much either. At all.
On top of all that, just read from 'India Uncut' an over-the-top positive review concerning how the Indian characters in it are written - "highly individualized and yet fully global in their identity."
So with that it zooms up my reading priority list!
Interesting interview about it:
Not counting the (ouch!) about the Dutch being the first people in New York. (too bad when someone of such sensibilities is insensate about such a huge yet commonly-unpossessed historical reality - the existence of Native Americans. Of course, perhaps he *meant* the first white people etc..etc.. Still, it sticks in my craw.)
I'm curious to see whether O'Neill draws any connections between the Netherlands and the origins of NYC, I have a book about how NYC is really different from the other East Coast cities due to that particular history (should try and read that one first probably, or skim and have at hand atleast..). It would seem like he would, with the title; but he could have decided that the title was enough of that, no more necessary. So that's one minor point of interest.
Reading about Cricket - lovely. Perhaps I'll grasp it that little bit more. I've been trying to get caught up due to its importance in India etc.., but aspects continue to elude me.
Also his general train-of-thoughts and ideas about place and belonging - might really like it, might not.
Him being Irish doesn't hurt much either. At all.
On top of all that, just read from 'India Uncut' an over-the-top positive review concerning how the Indian characters in it are written - "highly individualized and yet fully global in their identity."
So with that it zooms up my reading priority list!
Interesting interview about it:
Not counting the (ouch!) about the Dutch being the first people in New York. (too bad when someone of such sensibilities is insensate about such a huge yet commonly-unpossessed historical reality - the existence of Native Americans. Of course, perhaps he *meant* the first white people etc..etc.. Still, it sticks in my craw.)
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March 13, 2009
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