| Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game Contributor(s): Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Author), Ekelund, Fredrik (Author), Bartlett, Don (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374279837 ISBN-13: 9780374279837 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2017 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Sports & Recreation | Soccer - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: 839.826 |
| LCCN: 2016041352 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" L (0.80 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Features: Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2016 pg. 60 Booklist 11/15/2016 pg. 9 Publishers Weekly 12/05/2016 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected letters Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Sk ne with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer 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 soccer on the beach and watches matches with others. Ekelund loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful soccer. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil. Home and Away is an unusual soccer book, in which the two authors use soccer 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 globalized 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 gain insight into their relationships with modern times and soccer's place in their lives, the significance the game has for people in general, and the question Was this the best soccer championship ever? |
Contributor Bio(s): Kinsella, Sean: - Sean Kinsella was born in Ireland and holds an MPhil in literary translation from Trinity College, Dublin. He lives in Norway with his family. He is the translator of Two Sisters and Home and Away.Knausgaard, Karl Ove: - Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. My Struggle has won countless international literary awards and has been translated into at least fifteen languages. Knausgaard lives in Sweden with his wife and four children.Bartlett, Don: - Don Bartlett has translated dozens of books of various genres, including several novels and short story collections by Jo Nesbo and It's Fine by Me by Per Petterson. He lives in Norfolk, England.Ekelund, Fredrik: - Fredrik Ekelund was born in Sweden in 1953. He published his first book, Stuv Malmo, in 1984, and has since published another dozen works--novels, detective novels, collections of poetry, and books about soccer. Ekelund is also a playwright, and has made two films (with documentary filmmaker Lars Westman), as well as working as a translator specializing in Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. |
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