Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

by Don Bartlett (Translator), Fredrik Ekelund (Author), Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author), Seán Kinsella (Translator)

Synopsis

Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times and Evening Standard Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane 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. In Home and Away, two writers use football and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil to reflect on life and death, art and politics, class and literature and the most important question: was this the best football championship ever?

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Nov 2017

ISBN 10: 1784702358
ISBN 13: 9781784702359
Book Overview: Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics

Media Reviews
[It is] fascinating, insightful... Engrossing. -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *
Home and Away is deeply intelligent, enjoyable and sometimes funny. -- Simon Kuper * Financial Times, Book of the Year *
An entirely engrossing exchange of ideas, affection and memory... [A] genuinely engaging two-hander of real affection and insight. -- Barney Ronay * Literary Review *
Knausgaard is a writer with an astonishing ability to elevate the prosaic... As a reading experience, Home and Away is diverting, indulgent and stealthily enjoyable. Just as it probably was to write. * Esquire, Book of the Year *
At its core, Home and Away is a story about two men doing what they can to keep a friendship afloat, even from continents away. * New Yorker *
Author Bio
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) 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 for Everything, 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.Fredrik Ekelund (Author) Fredrik Ekelund is a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. He won the Fackfoereningsroerelsens Ivar Lo Prize in 2009 for his novel M/S Tiden, hailed as `the year's best Swedish novel' by Svenska Dagbladet. He has played as a striker in the Swedish authors' national football team.