Aleksandar Hemon

"The genius of Aleksandar Hemon's prose is a well-established, universally acknowledged fact. But his ability to read a soccer match-to really, deeply understand it-will strike readers with the force of pure, ecstatic revelation. His essays on the game are the very definition of pleasure." -Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude....