HOME AND AWAY

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Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Karl Ove Knausgaards 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 Fackfreningsrrelsens Ivar Lo Prize in 2009 for his novel M/S Tiden hailed as śthe years best Swedish novel by Svenska Dagbladet. He has played as a striker in the Swedish authors national football team.Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times and Evening StandardKarl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skąne 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 00 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 43 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?[It is] fascinating insightful... Engrossing.Home and Away is deeply intelligent enjoyable and sometimes funny.An entirely engrossing exchange of ideas affection and memory [A] genuinely engaging twohander of real affection and insight.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.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.

Data Publikacji: 2017-11-02
Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 27 mm 298 gr