Bøker av David Winner

A cult novel about Dutch football.

While clearing out his great aunt's midtown apartment after her death, author David Winner discovered artifacts of her storied existence: notes from opera stars, love letters and artifacts from the Middle East of the 1930's. His Aunt Dorle had been a co-founder of Angel Records and a prominent figure in the mid-century classical music world. But the more he learned about her world, the more complicated her story became, a twisted puzzle full of love and fascism, a record of a young woman grappling with her attraction to lovers with hair-raising political ties. A powerful work of family discovery, rooted in a bygone Midtown Manhattan and involving artists and politicians from around the world.

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award, "The Cannibal of Guadalajara" is a refreshing dark comedy, with a range of characters who commingle between Mexico and Manhattan among their nightmares and dreams. Winner gives the reader surprises of sex and romance and paints a sympathetic and precise description of their world. Wildly imaginative, it paints a lush yet pointedly satirical portrait of New Yorkers in love and lust, baby boomers in mid-life misadventures, Gen-Xers in the grip of perennial childhood, and the aspirations that have led them all astray.

Offering an original look at English football, this title journeys to the heart of Englishness and sheds light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful. It also shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England's many World Cup failures.

A unique World Cup diary from the author of Brilliant Orange and Those Feet