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Home and Away

Home and Away

Writing the Beautiful Game

by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/11/2016

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Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 inThe Times and Evening Standard

Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics


Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Sk ne with his wife, four small children and a dog. He is watching football on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee and Argentina.

Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays football on the beach and watches matches with friends. Fredrik loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful football. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil.

Home and Away is an unusual football book, in which the two authors use football and the World Cup in Brazil as the arena for reflections on life and death, art and politics, class and literature. What does it mean to be at home in a globalised world?

This exchange of letters opens up new vistas and gives us stories from the lives of two creative writers. We get under their skin and have an insight into their relationships with modern times and football's place in their lives, the significance the game has for people in general and the question- Was this the best football championship ever?
ISBN:
9781910701362
9781910701362
Category:
American football
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
14-11-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
233x153x32mm
Weight:
0.57kg
Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics Prize and his second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed.

A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize.

The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world.

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