Joseph O'Neill: Godwin, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Godwin
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593687154
- Item number:
- 12366890
- Volume:
- 288 Pages
- Weight:
- 308 g
- Format:
- 203 x 132 mm
- Thickness:
- 21 mm
- Release date:
- 11.11.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Godwin |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Gebunden | EUR 28.00* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 10.37* |
Blurb
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • 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.
Biography
Joseph O'Neill wurde 1964 als Sohn eines Iren und einer Türkin in Cork geboren und wuchs in Holland auf. Er studierte Jura in Cambridge und arbeitete als Anwalt in London. Später folgte er seiner Frau, einer Vogue-Redakteurin, nach New York, wo er heute mit seiner Familie lebt.
