Home and Away

Zusatztext

<p><b>Selected as a Book of the Year in<i>The Times</i>and<i>Evening Standard</i></b></p><p>Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>In<i>Home and Away</i>, 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?</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)</b> <b>Karl Ove Knausgaard</b>s first novel,<i>Out of the World</i>, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics Prize and his second,<i>A Time for Everything</i>, 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. <b>Fredrik Ekelund (Author)</b> Fredrik Ekelund is a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. He won the Fackföreningsrörelsens Ivar Lo Prize in 2009 for his novel<i>M/S Tiden</i>, hailed as the years best Swedish novel by<i>Svenska Dagbladet</i>. He has played as a striker in the Swedish authors national football team.

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