Christos Tsiolkas is the author of The Slap, which 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. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
The novel Tsiolkas was born to write
*Financial Times*
A visceral portrait of the life of St Paul
*Guardian*
A powerful testament to spiritual yearning and the human desire to
transcend the physical world.
*Sunday Times*
A narrative of shock and awe, fear and trembling, so large in
ambition it will probably be the book for which he will be best
remembered... Tsiolkas has made a career of taking sanctioned
narratives and flipping them to reveal a dark human underbelly...
At its best, which is miraculously often, the novel is conjugated
not in the simple present but in what is knows as the "prophetic
perfect".
*The Weekend Australian*
There are too many highlights to count in this daring, shocking,
speculative work of biblical fiction by one of Australia's
highest-profile authors. Captivating...
*The Herald Sun*
One of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work
today
*Colm Tóibín*
A vivid novel... an insightful and sympathetic portrait of a man
assailed by doubts, envy and pride, and tormented by his own
homosexuality. Both insider and outsider, Tsiolkas writes with
enormous respect and admiration for Christianity's message of love
and equality, while recognizing all the flaws that Christianity,
like any religion, is subject to - intolerance, populism and
fundamentalism, and grubby worldliness.
*Selina O'Grady*
An enormously ambitious novel... Tsiolkas' message is ultimately
one of hope and humanity... This is a brave, unflinching book.
*The Listener*
Hyper real. I could taste the salt of Saul's sweat as I gasped and
cried my way through the book... This latest release confirms his
ability to identify and describe both the best and the worst of us
humans, whether we wear sandals or sneakers.
*The Age*
Startling... Moving and powerful...
*ABC*
There aren't any cinematic sandal-and-toga moments here; these
people are hyper real. I could taste the salt of Saul's sweat as I
gasped and cried my way through the book.
*Sunday Star Time*
A deeply researched, crafted fictional world created by one of
Australia's greatest literary talents.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Tsiolkas takes on nothing less than the birth of Christianity - and
does so with rigour and grit. This is as-it-happens history, deeply
immersive, yet alive to hindsight irony. It's a brave book, and
sincerely spiritual.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
One of Australia's best writers... rough, gutsy and sometimes
shocking book, but always a gripping read.
*About Regional*
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