Background
He was born and grew up in Melbourne with his Greek immigrant parents, and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987.
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Dead Europe
(Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling thr...)
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. 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.
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Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas (2015-09-03)
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The Slap: A Novel
(The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholo...)
The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto. In this powerful and riveting novel reminiscent of Liane Moriarty's Truly, Madly, Guilty, literary phenomenon Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly exposes the inner workings of domestic life, friendship, and parenthood in the twenty-first century, and reminds us of the passions and malice that family loyalty can provoke. When a man slaps another couple’s child at a neighborhood barbecue, the event send unforeseeable shock waves through the lives of all who are witness to it. Told from the points of view of eight people who were present, The Slap shows how a single action can change the way people think about how they live, what they want, and what they believe forever.
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Merciless Gods
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Barracuda: A Novel
(Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to b...)
Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to be an NBC miniseries) returns in an “immensely moving” (Sunday Times) story of a young athlete’s coming of age Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to transform his life, silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship, and take him far beyond his neighborhood, possibly to international stardom and an Olympic medal. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of this dream. But what happens when the talent that makes you special fails you? When the goal that you’ve been pursuing for as long as you can remember ends in humiliation and loss? Twenty years later, Dan is in Scotland, terrified to tell his partner about his past, afraid that revealing what he has done will make him unlovable. When he is called upon to return home to his family, the moment of violence in the wake of his defeat that changed his life forever comes back to him in terrifying detail, and he struggles to believe that he’ll be able to make amends. Haunted by shame, Dan relives the intervening years he spent in prison, where the optimism of his childhood was completely foreign. Tender, savage, and blazingly brilliant, Barracuda is a novel about dreams and disillusionment, friendship and family, class, identity, and the cost of success. As Daniel loses everything, he learns what it means to be a good person—and what it takes to become one.
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Loaded
(Book by Christos Tsiolkas)
Book by Christos Tsiolkas
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Christos Tsiolkas
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University of Melbourne.
Career
He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1987. Tsiolkas" first novel,, was filmed as Head On (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades. The Slap has been turned into both an Australian and United States. television miniseries.
He is a Richmond Football Club supporter, and openly gay.
Thug (with Spiro Economopoulos, 1998) Saturn"s Return (2000) 2006 "The Hit" Parallelo.
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Barracuda: A Novel
(Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to b...)
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The Slap: A Novel
(The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholo...)
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Dead Europe
(Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling thr...)
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Loaded
(Book by Christos Tsiolkas)
- Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas (2015-09-03)
- Merciless Gods
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Barracuda: A Novel
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Australia