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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968-     Subjects     Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- -- Correspondence.     Ekelund, Fredrik, 1953- -- Correspondence.     Novelists, Norwegian -- 21st century -- Correspondence.     Novelists, Swedish -- 21st century -- Correspondence.     Soccer in literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968-       by title:      Home and away : writ...       by call number:      839.8238 K67h     Search the Web     Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968-     Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- -- Correspondence.     Ekelund, Fredrik, 1953- -- Correspondence.     Novelists, Norwegian -- 21st century -- Correspondence.     Novelists, Swedish -- 21st century -- Correspondence.     Soccer in literature.       MARC Display

Home and away : writing the beautiful game / Karl Ove Knausgård and Fredrik Ekelund ; translated by Don Bartlett and Seán Kinsella. by Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- Knopf Canada, 2017. Call #: 839.8238 K67h Subjects Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- -- Correspondence.   Ekelund, Fredrik, 1953- -- Correspondence.   Novelists, Norwegian -- 21st century -- Correspondence.   Novelists, Swedish -- 21st century -- Correspondence.   Soccer in literature. ISBN:  9780345810755 (pbk.) Description:  412 p. ; 23 cm. Notes:  Translation of: Hjemme-borte. Summary:  "From the always astonishing Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard - a brilliantly unusual book to delight both reading sports fans and the literary world. Bridging the two worlds of soccer and great writing, Knausgaard provides us with a die-hard fan's impassioned, personal, quirky, entertaining musings on that fundamental relationship between sports and life. "I remember every single World Cup starting with the one in 1978, what I was doing, how I was living, who I was, and the world in which it took place. But I have always just watched them on TV, never in reality, and I want it to stay that way - so that's the starting point for this book, isn't it? Life against death, yes against no, Brazil against Argentina." Karl Ove is sitting at home in Sweden watching the World Cup on TV (and falling asleep), with his wife, four small children and the dog; his good pal Fredrik is away in Brazil, playing beautiful football on the beach and watching the match. In this lively, argumentative, unique long-form email correspondence between them, written back and forth across the world, what begins as musings on the famous 2014 World Cup becomes (naturally) an exploration of the essential questions of life, with soccer as the catalyst for an inspiringly entertaining exchange of thoughts and ideas encompassing everything from the elusive nature of personal happiness, competitiveness, politics, insider knowledge about international football, art and literature, all rivetingly dissected with brilliance, verve and humour. Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of the novels Out of the World, A Time for Everything, and A Death in the Family, the first of his six My Struggle novels. Fredrik Ekelund is the author of the novel M/S Tiden. He has played as a striker in the Swedish authors' national football team"--Provided by publisher. Other authors:  Ekelund, Fredrik, 1953- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 839.8238 K67h Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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