Striker, Stopper
Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance
Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd
Published on 3. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-81-906173-7-6 (ISBN)
Description
Striker is the story of a young football player, Prasoon Joshi, whose father, once a top scorer in the Calcutta League is completely sidelined after being accused by the club he played for of deliberately throwing the winning goal. As a young player struggling to make his mark, Prasoon not only has to battle the ruthless exploitation of the football clubs, his family's straitened financial circumstances, and his own development as a player, but he has also to exorcise his father's ghosts. Stopper, on the other hand, is the story of the much older Kamal Guha, a veteran player with an eclectic record, now playing the final game of his career...
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gurgaon
India
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 108 mm
ISBN-13
978-81-906173-7-6 (9788190617376)
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Persons
A former sports journalist, Moti Nandy has written about the lives of sports people - footballers in particular - in a series of remarkable novels in Bengali.