Damascus /
Tsiolkas, Christos,
Damascus / Christos Tsiolkas. - Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2019. - 423 pages : map ; 24 cm.
"Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations on from the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, Damascus nevertheless explores the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: class, religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, refugees; the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united and divided - it's all here, the contemporary and urgent questions, perennial concerns made vivid and visceral." -- Provided by publisher.
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of six novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for his novel, The Slap, which was also announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year. His fifth novel, Barracuda, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the inaugural Voss Literary Prize. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
Winner 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction.
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021 - for his body of work.
9781760875091 1760875090 9781760879143
be2019040612
Paul, the Apostle, Saint --Fiction.
Paul, the Apostle, Saint.
Bible.--New Testament--History of Biblical events--Fiction
Bible--History of Biblical events--Fiction
Bible.--New Testament
30-600
Faith--Fiction.
Sacrifice--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Betrayal--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Religious fiction.
Australian fiction--21st century.
Persecution--Fiction.
Christianity--History--Fiction.
Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Fiction.
Apostles.
Church history--Primitive and early church.
History of Biblical events.
Persecution--Early church.
Apostles--Fiction.
Church history--Primitive and early church, approximately 30-600--Fiction.
Persecution--History--Early church, approximately 30-600--Fiction.
Damascus Region (Syria)--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Christian fiction--Print --Adult fiction
Fiction.
History.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Religious fiction.
Bible fiction.
PR8276.S55 / D36 2019
A823.4
Damascus / Christos Tsiolkas. - Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2019. - 423 pages : map ; 24 cm.
"Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations on from the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, Damascus nevertheless explores the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: class, religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, refugees; the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united and divided - it's all here, the contemporary and urgent questions, perennial concerns made vivid and visceral." -- Provided by publisher.
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of six novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for his novel, The Slap, which was also announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year. His fifth novel, Barracuda, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the inaugural Voss Literary Prize. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
Winner 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction.
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021 - for his body of work.
9781760875091 1760875090 9781760879143
be2019040612
Paul, the Apostle, Saint --Fiction.
Paul, the Apostle, Saint.
Bible.--New Testament--History of Biblical events--Fiction
Bible--History of Biblical events--Fiction
Bible.--New Testament
30-600
Faith--Fiction.
Sacrifice--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Betrayal--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Religious fiction.
Australian fiction--21st century.
Persecution--Fiction.
Christianity--History--Fiction.
Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Fiction.
Apostles.
Church history--Primitive and early church.
History of Biblical events.
Persecution--Early church.
Apostles--Fiction.
Church history--Primitive and early church, approximately 30-600--Fiction.
Persecution--History--Early church, approximately 30-600--Fiction.
Damascus Region (Syria)--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Christian fiction--Print --Adult fiction
Fiction.
History.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Religious fiction.
Bible fiction.
PR8276.S55 / D36 2019
A823.4
