Congrats to Knopf Publishing Group author, Joseph O’Neill!
His novel, Netherland, has won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Award judge Rendall Kenan says, “["Netherland"] is about the new and continuing immigrant story, about New Americans and the making of new American traditions, which has always been New York’s function in the world. O’Neill has created a powerfully entertaining novel, but also a new emblem for our time.”
Past PEN/Faulkner winners include Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow and the late John Updike.
-Marie
We’re thrilled to announce that The New York Times Book Review has named their “Ten Best Books of 2008” and nine out of the ten titles are published by Random House, Inc!
Our “Best Books” are:
DANGEROUS LAUGHTER by Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
A MERCY by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
THE DARK SIDE by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)
THE FOREVER WAR by Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF by Julian Barnes (Knopf)
THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING by Drew Gilpin Faust (Knopf)
THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS by Patrick French (Knopf)
The list will appear in the Sunday 12/14 issue of the New York Times Book Review and is bound to inspire demand for these titles. The entire list is posted HERE.
