Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

By: Don Bartlett and Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund and Sean Kinsella

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Synopsis: Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times and Evening StandardKarl 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.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?

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 432 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781473523906
Related ISBNs:: 9781784702359, 9781910701355
Publisher:: Random House
Date of Addition:: 09/24/20
Copyrighted By:: Pelikanen Forlag
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:: Don Bartlett
Translator:: Sean Kinsella