2 Novels by Christos Tsiolkas
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Overview: 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. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988.
Tsiolkas’ first novel, Loaded (1995), was filmed as Head On (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades.In 2006, his novel, Dead Europe, won The Age Book of the Year fiction award and was adapted into a film in 2012. In 2009, his fourth novel, The Slap, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009 for best novel in the South-East Asia and South Pacific area.
He is a Richmond Football Club supporter, and openly gay.
Genre:Fiction
The Jesus Man
The Jesus Man tells the story of three brothers, Dominic, Tommy and Louie, who come from a Greek-Italian family haunted by its history. When Tommy is made redundant from work and can’t find another job, he finds the voices in his head becoming louder and louder as he sinks inexorably into pornography, violence and madness. Tommy snaps and murders someone who may or may not be a serial sex killer of children, and then castrates and kills himself, leaving his family numb with grief and incomprehension and at the mercy of the ensuing media feeding frenzy.
The Jesus Man is told from the point of view of Louie, the youngest brother, who is struggling to make sense of Tommy’s death and the kind of world in which such tragedies are commonplace. Written with the remorseless, page-turning urgency of a thriller, The Jesus Man is an uncompromising and timely examination of the hell that is life for many people; a soulless void in which pornography takes the place of love, television the place of human contact and where individual worth has been superseded by economic rationalism.
Sticks and Stones
Sticks, Stones is a story of suburban family life. Marianne is a mother who works at a travel agent and after a successful trade fair she is given the day off. While at home she discovers that she likes pottering around the house, tending to the garden, being alone, something that she used to detest: ‘she had come to hate the family car, the smell of it, the metallic trace of Kalinda’s vomit that they could never seem to wash out of the back seat, the stereo trapped forever on GOLD FM.’ After baking an upside down pear and caramel cake, Marianne remembers that she must pick up her son Jack and drive him to soccer. She arrives and watches Jack kick a soccer ball with his mates. Amelia, a friend’s daughter who has Down syndrome is trying to play with the boys. One of the boys is holding the ball above her head and she is jumping for it. When she eventually strikes the ball it flies onto the road and into a car, and Jack says, ‘Mels, why are you such a dumb mong?’
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