A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom 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 selfthwarting technical writer lives in Pittsburgh with his wife Sushila and their toddler daughter His halfbrother 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 Godwinan 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 moneymaking
As only he can do Joseph ONeill investigates the legacy of colonialism in the context of family love global capitalism and the dreaming individual
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