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Audiobook: Godwin

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  • Pub. Date: 04-Jun-2024
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780008284077
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  • Format: MP3
  • Pub. Date: 04-Jun-2024
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780008284077

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A fantastic novel, brilliantly crafted MARCUS DU SAUTOY





'Enthralling not to be missed' GUARDIAN





A meticulously constructed marvel' WASHINGTON POST



'I wish there were more books like this' ELIF BATUMAN





The return of Joseph ONeill, with a story on the scale of the international phenomenon Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African football 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 UK, is a desperate young football 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 Messi.



Narrated in turn by Mark and his work colleague Lakesha Williams, the novel is both a tale of family and migration, and an international adventure story that implicates the brothers in the beauty and ugliness of football, 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.



'Among the best novels Ive read in a long time' BILL BUFORD





Delightful, funny rapidly told in masterful prose' FINANCIAL TIMES







'Moving enjoyable' THE TIMES







'This has all the velocity and swerve of an unstoppable free kick' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY







Joseph ONeill's novel Netherland was longlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize

Reviews

ONeills storytelling here has an enthralling fireside quality A book to sink into, in other words, and one not to be missed Guardian



A meticulously constructed marvel Nobody elses fiction tears up the ground quite like ONeills profoundly introspective novels his stories are marvels of narrative magic and stylistic panache Like Godwin, this novelist is a player whose charges and feints will leave you amazed and defeated Washington Post



Delightful, funny rapidly told in masterful prose' Financial Times



'Erudite, wide-roving, politically engaged' Telegraph



ONeill is to privileged white guys in crisis what Sally Rooney is to young intellectuals in love A new and moving take on his usual tale of masculine doom, which gives this deceptively light comic novel a subtly profound undertowits all enjoyable The Times



Absorbing picaresque Vogue



'Exciting and incisive This has all the velocity and swerve of an unstoppable free kick' Publishers Weekly



'Minute, hilariously observed, and poignant replete with laugh-out-loud observations, gorgeously turned phrases, and exhilarating dialogue I wish there were more books like this' Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or



A fantastic novel, brilliantly crafted, using such a clever lens to explore the world of football I loved it Marcus du Sautoy, author of Around the World in 80 Games



A comedic hunt for raw footballing talent in Africa explores a new kind of colonialism' Guardian



'Populous, lively and intellectually challenging' New York Times Book Review



'I didnt want it to end You absolutely have to read this What an achievement. Among the best novels Ive read in a long time' Bill Buford, author of Among the Thug



'An astonishing marathon of storytelling' Kirkus Reviews



An exercise in realism by one of its finer contemporary disciples Vulture

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The thrilling new novel from the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Netherland
Joseph O'Neill was born in Ireland and grew up in Mozambique, Iran, and the Netherlands. After working in England as a barrister, he moved to New York, where he lives with his family. His most recent novels, The Dog and Netherland, were longlisted for the Booker Prize. Netherland received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Kerry Fiction Prize. Joseph O'Neill's short stories appear regularly in the New Yorker, and his nonfiction has been published in the Guardian, the Irish Times, and the New York Review of Books.