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A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated
from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he
craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he
has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The
preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away and
he becomes lost in memory and beauty. He begins to tell us a story
... A retired porn star who is made an offer he can't refuse for
the sake of his family and future. So he returns to the world he
fled years before, all too aware of the danger of opening the door
to past temptations and long-buried desires. Can he resist the
oblivion and bliss they promise? A breathtakingly audacious novel
by the acclaimed author of The Slap and Damascus about finding joy
and beauty in a raging and punitive world, about the refractions of
memory and time and, most subversive of all, the mystery of art and
its creation.
The sensational international bestseller by Australia's "preeminent
contemporary novelist" ("The Age"), in his United States debut
Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Christos
Tsiolkas's "The Slap" is a riveting page-turner and a powerful,
haunting rumination on contemporary middle-class family life. When
a man slaps a child who is not his own at a neighborhood barbecue,
the act triggers a series of repercussions in the lives of the
people who witness the event-causing them to reassess their values,
expectations, and desires. For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Tom
Perrotta, this is a compelling account of modern society and the
way we live today.
From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated
author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel. Winner of
the 2006 Age Fiction Prize Winner of the 2006 Melbourne Best
Writing Award Part long-forgotten myth, part meditation on the
violence and tragedy of contemporary Europe, Dead Europe is an
unsettling story about blood lust and blood revenge; a novel of
blazing brilliance from the acclaimed author of The Slap. Isaac, a
young Australian photographer, is travelling through Europe. His
whole life he has longed for the sophistication and wealth of the
Europe of his father's stories, the Europe at the centre of
civilization and culture. But behind the facade of a unified and
globalized contemporary society, he finds a history-blasted
wasteland, a place forever condemned by the ghosts of its
unspeakable past. In the mountain village in the Balkans where his
mother was born, he unearths ancient terrors that have not been
laid to rest, and perhaps never can be.
A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated
from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he
craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he
has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The
preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away and
he becomes lost in memory and beauty. He begins to tell us a story
... A retired porn star who is made an offer he can't refuse for
the sake of his family and future. So he returns to the world he
fled years before, all too aware of the danger of opening the door
to past temptations and long-buried desires. Can he resist the
oblivion and bliss they promise? A breathtakingly audacious novel
by the acclaimed author of The Slap and Damascus about finding joy
and beauty in a raging and punitive world, about the refractions of
memory and time and, most subversive of all, the mystery of art and
its creation.
'We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and
yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that?
You must wonder, how is it we survive?' In a far corner of the
Roman Empire, a radical sect is growing. Alone, unloved and
battling his sexuality, Saul scrapes together a living exposing
these nascent Christians, but on the road to Damascus, everything
changes. Saul - now Paul - becomes drawn into this new religion and
its mysterious leader, whose crucifixion leaves followers waiting
in limbo for his promised return. As factions splinter and
competition to create the definitive version of Christ's life grows
violent, he begins to question his new faith and the man at its
heart. Damascus is an unflinching dissection of doubt, faith,
tyranny, revolution, cruelty and sacrifice. A vivid and visceral
novel with perennial concerns, it is a masterpiece of imagination
and transformation.
From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated
author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.
Longlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award You lose
everything. In front of everyone. Where do you go from here? Daniel
Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape his
working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the pool
should drive him to fame and fortune, as well as his revenge on the
rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports
scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his
family has ever made, has been in pursuit of his dream. But when he
melts down at his first big international championship and comes
only fifth, he begins to destroy everything he has fought for and
turn on everyone around him. Tender and savage, Barracuda is a
novel about dreams and disillusionment, friendship and family. As
Daniel Kelly loses everything, he learns what it means to be a good
person - and what it takes to become one.
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Discover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari
is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something -
anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban
Melbourne. Torn between the traditional Greek world of his parents
and friends and the alluring, destructive world of clubs and drugs
and anonymous sex, all Ari can do is ease his pain in the only way
he knows how. 'One of the most significant contemporary
storytellers at work today' Colm Toibin 'An addictive read' Stylist
'We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and
yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that?
You must wonder, how is it we survive?' In a far corner of the
Roman Empire, a radical sect is growing. Alone, unloved and
battling his sexuality, Saul scrapes together a living exposing
these nascent Christians, but on the road to Damascus, everything
changes. Saul - now Paul - becomes drawn into this new religion and
its mysterious leader, whose crucifixion leaves followers waiting
in limbo for his promised return. As factions splinter and
competition to create the definitive version of Christ's life grows
violent, he begins to question his new faith and the man at its
heart. Damascus is an unflinching dissection of doubt, faith,
tyranny, revolution, cruelty and sacrifice. A vivid and visceral
novel with perennial concerns, it is a masterpiece of imagination
and transformation.
A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the
award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love,
sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and
revelation... This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed
writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange
and familiar, and introduces you to characters that will haunt you
long after you have turned the final page.
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