The buzz on Book Buzz — October 2010
October Read
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Hans van den Broek, a successful Dutch equities analyst, moves his family from London'to Manhattan. But, after the 9/11 attacks, his wife returns t o London with their son, leaving Hans behind to consider the state of their marriage. 
Hans takes up residence in the famed Chelsea Hotel, and finds an outlet for his energy in the game of cricket, played in New York by a team of primarily West Indian immigrants.
He is soon befriended by Trinidadian expatriate and umpire, Chuck Ramkissoon. Chuck, a charismatic rogue with big dreams and ties to the Russian mob, introduces Hans to a wholly different side of New York.
O’Neill’s award-winning novel has been compared with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby for its meditation on the American dream and examination of memory and loss.
The novel received the 2009 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.
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Coming in November
The Knife Sharpener’s Bell by Rhea Tregebov
Annette Gershon’s odyssey from Depression-era Winnipeg to Stalinist Russia and back to Canada in the 1950s is both the seldom-told story of those who actually made that hopeful, doomed journey and a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit.
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Rhea Tregebov, author of The Knife Sharpener's Bell, joins us throughout November as a guest blogger.
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