The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt modern fiction From Peter the Great to

From Peter the Great to Putin

As Graf and Kay plot and counterplot

Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world

Following the death of his wife

they tell the stories of their families

The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt modern fiction From Peter the Great toFootball conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The IndependentThere may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt