Home and Away

[It is] fascinating, insightful… Engrossing. – Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *Home and Away is deeply intelligent, enjoyable and sometimes funny. – Simon Kuper * Financial Times, Book of the Year *An entirely engrossing exchange of ideas, affection and memory… [A] genuinely engaging two-hander of real affection and insight. – Barney Ronay * Literary Review *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. * Esquire, Book of the Year *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. * New Yorker *For a book which, at heart, is no more than two friends chatting about football, there is a lot to like. * The Economist *Their correspondence is, at times, very personal and the reader gets the impression that the two writers are connecting on a deeper level, able to express views and thoughts that they wouldn’t share with anyone else. It is this feeling that as a reader you are being welcomed into a lively conversation about politics, life and everything in between, which makes the book so enjoyable and engrossing. – Chris Tilbury * Prospect *The pair make lively correspondents. – Max Liu * i *It’s fun and possibly a fruitful format for future tournaments. – Giles Smith * The Times Books of the Year *It is worth having a read of this…to be reminded again of the joy of sport and how it adds colour and passion and pleasure to modern life. – Paul Rouse * Irish Examiner *

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.

Fredrik Ekelund (Author)

Fredrik Ekelund is a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. He won the Fackf reningsr relsens Ivar Lo Prize in 2009 for his novel M/S Tiden, hailed as ‘the year’s best Swedish novel’ by Svenska Dagbladet. He has played as a striker in the Swedish authors’ national football team.