How Soccer Explains the World - by Franklin Foer (Paperback)

How Soccer Explains the World is a groundbreaking work that takes readers on an eye-opening chronicle of how soccer, the world's most popular sport, highlights the fault lines of society, from terrorism to poverty and anti-Semitism.

This book provides a personal yet richly-reported look at how approaches to soccer tell us so much about different societies and their cultural attitudes.

It is required reading not just for soccer lovers but anyone who wants to understand what is going on in the world today.

The book is filled with blazing intelligence, colorful characters, wry humor, and an equal passion for soccer and humanity, making it a unique and brilliantly illuminating look at the world's most popular sport as a new metaphor for the pressing issues of our age.