The Venue: Hedigans ‘The Brian Boru’, 5 Prospect Road, Glasnevin, Dublin
Join a small group of guests in this charming Ould World Traditional Pub based restaurant in Glasnevin, Dublin 9 to discuss Joseph O’Neill’s ‘Neverland’.
The Book: Netherland by 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, visionary, and perhaps something darker…