Jethro Soutar: 2 books

The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. Ndani leaves her village to seek a better life in the capital, finding work as a maid for a Portuguese...

A prison team in Argentina, a transvestite team in Colombia, a kidnapped team in Bolivia; Quechua women playing in bowler hats in the Andes, a Latino immigrant league in New York, Chilean hooligans on an away trip to Buenos Aires... A collection of creative non-fiction writing from Latin America takes football as its starting point, on a journey to the heart of Latin American society.