Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times & Evening Standard Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife four small children & a dog He is watching football on TV & falls asleep in front of the set He likes 0-0 draws cigarettes coffee & Argentina Fredrik Ekelund is away in Brazil where he plays football on the beach & watches matches with friends Fredrik loves games that end up 4-3 & teams that play beautiful football He likes caipirinhas & Brazil In Home & Away two writers use football & the 2014 World Cup in Brazil to reflect on life & death art & politics class & literature & the most important question was this the best football championship ever?