Godwin

Godwin

First edition

Hardback (04 Jun 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Netherland (a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the year): the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes.

Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is a desperate young soccer agent. He pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as "Godwin"-an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Lionel Messi.

Narrated in turn by Mark and his work colleague Lakesha Williams, Godwin is a tale of family and migration as well as an international adventure story that implicates the brothers in the beauty and ugliness of soccer, the perils and promises of international business, and the dark history of transatlantic money-making.

As only he can do, Joseph O'Neill investigates the legacy of colonialism in the context of family love, global capitalism, and the dreaming individual.

Book information

ISBN: 9780593701324
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Pantheon Books
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230724
Language: English
Number of pages: cm
Weight: 550g
Height: 242mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 27mm