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Joseph O’Neill will present his latest, highly acclaimed novel: Netherland.

About Joseph O’Neill

O'Neill, who has half-Irish and half-Turkish ancestry, was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964, and grew up in The Netherlands, where he attended boarding school at The Hague.

O'Neill is the author of three novels, the most recent of which, Netherland (published in May 2008) was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. It was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review where it was called, "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell". It was also included in New York Times, list of 10 Best Books of 2008.

O'Neill is also the author of a non-fiction book, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a book of the year for the Economist and the Irish Times. Additionally, O'Neill writes literary and cultural criticism, most regularly for the Atlantic Monthly. He lives with his wife and their three sons in the Chelsea Hotel in New York.

Read the Washington Post review by Siri Hustvedt.