Ekelund Fredrik - Home And Away Writing The Beautiful Game - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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?
Title: Home And Away Writing The Beautiful Game
Author(s): Ekelund Fredrik
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374279837
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/10/2017
Category: Diaries, Letters & Journals