Godwin
"Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark, a millennial technical writer who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter, grew up a world apart from his much younger half-brother...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 520 | |a "Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark, a millennial technical writer who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter, grew up a world apart from his much younger half-brother Geoff. Raised in the UK by the mother who deserted Mark when she divorced his dad and married a richer man, Geoff is now a fast-talking soccer agent, who pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to find an elusive prospect known only as "Godwin"--an African teenager Geoff believes will be the next Pele. All they have to go on is a video of Godwin; they don't even know which country it was shot in. Narrated in turns by the intellectually rigorous yet self-thwarting Mark, and Lakesha Williams, the conscientious leader of the writers' collective where he works, the novel becomes a twisty international adventure that is part heart-of-darkness and part American Main Street in the 2010s--deliciously far-flung geographically, ethically, and emotionally. Godwin immerses us in the hazy world of high-stakes soccer-recruiting and the beautiful game itself, weaving the search for Godwin together with the moving story of Mark's mixed-race family and Lakesha's surprising path into their lives."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Soccer |x Scouting |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Racially mixed families |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a International travel |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Brothers |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Soccer players |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fortune |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Families |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Sports fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Domestic fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a O'Neill, Joseph, 1964- |t Godwin |b First edition. |d New York : Pantheon Books, 2024 |z 9780593701331 |w (DLC) 2023033935 |
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