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Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is the author of five 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. He is also a playwright, essayist and screenwriter. Christos' latest novel is Barracuda, which was published here and in the UK to rave reviews in late 2013 and became an instant bestseller.

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Title:: Damascus (MP3)
Written by:: Christos Tsiolkas
Read by:: Saul Reichlin
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 14 hours 39 minutes
MP3 size:: 634 MB
Published:: October 28 2019
Available Date:: October 28 2019
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655627289
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Christianity; Literary Fiction; Religious Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Longlisted ABIA / Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2020
Winner Melbourne Prize for Literature / Adult Fiction 2021

Narrator Saul Reichlin takes on the sizable challenge of dramatizing the early years of the Christian church. One noteworthy example is his account of the transformation of Saul, a Jewish religious leader, into Paul, pillar of the church. Reichlin understands the complex subject matter he has been charged with and takes it very seriously. The chapters are not told in chronological order, yet they make sense because of his careful performance. Some listeners might find his performance a little overdone with the multiple voices and accents used for various characters. This is church history imagined with all the daily struggles of life during this era. Those who have some familiarity will especially enjoy hearing about the lives of Timothy, Lydia, and others.
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The stunningly powerful new audiobook from the author of The Slap.

‘They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in the streets. We are hunted everywhere and we are hunted by everyone ... We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You have to wonder, how is it that we not only survive but we grow stronger?’ Christos Tsiolkas’ stunning new title Damascus is a work of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church. Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul and focusing on characters one and two generations after the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, Damascus nevertheless asks the contemporary and urgent questions that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer – about class, love, family, exile and sacrifice.