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Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation... This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go.
A mother watches a gay porn film starring her dead son; a son masturbates his ageing, addled father; a prisoner forces another inmate to eat his own faeces; a drugged-up racist truck driver vows to kill Aborigines; a holidaying middle-aged lesbian couple confront Arab culture; a man shatters a dinner party by confessing to an atrocity in Kurdistan. The stories in Christos Tsiolkas’s debut short fiction collection are out there, even for him! Yet while this new book seethes with sex, drugs, profanity and violence, it is also full of love, kindness, beauty and, even humour.
Christos Tsiolkas is the Melbourne-based author of many powerful and transgressive novels, including the gay classic Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head On, and also the much lauded and discussed The Slap, which was adapted into a television series. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer, and has won numerous literary awards. His latest book was the best-selling Barracuda.
Paperback edition April 2016 336 pages
Author: Christos Tsiolkas