- Title:
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Dead Europe
- Written by:
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Christos Tsiolkas
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 35 minutes
- Published:
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September 28 2011
- Available Date:
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September 28 2011
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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9781743102602
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Supernatural
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Winner Melbourne Prize for Literature / Adult Fiction 2021
"…confronting, challenging and impossible to put down…If you’re tired of the comforting, tidy views of most contemporary fiction, you can’t go past Dead Europe. In a word, it’s deadly."
The Bulletin
A man's search through Europe for his mother's roots leads him to find more than he bargained for; the ghosts of his own family's past.
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 civilisation and culture.
But behind the facade of a unified and globalised contemporary society, he finds a history blasted wasteland, a place forever condemned by the ghosts of its unspeakable past.
Dead Europe is an unsettling ghost story about blood lust, blood libel and blood revenge.
"Read by Audie Award-winning performer Humphrey Bower, Dead Europe is the suspenseful, unabridged adaptation of a novel about a young Australian photographer on a journey through Europe. Though he dreams to experience the sophistication, wealth, and majesty of the Europe his father once described, the Europe he discovers is horrifically different. A tale of murder, suffering, revenge, and the dark repercussions of past evil, Dead Europe is as compelling as it is horrifying. Highly recommended."
Mid West Book Review
"Isaac is an avant-garde Australian-born photographer, the son of Greek immigrants, whose search for his heritage culminates in a roller-coaster ride that changes his life forever. Aussie narrator Humphrey Bower manages to make a potentially difficult performance sound effortless as Isaac befriends Jews, Christians, Communists, and ex-Nazis who are all suffering from the traumas of WWII and the civil war in Europe that followed. As Bower reports on the extreme behavior of Holocaust survivors, he diligently introduces us to male and female characters and their varied dialects and reveals their seedy and disturbing actions, raw sexual encounters, and unsteady journeys from Athens to Prague to Australia. Clearly, this is not a light listen but a composite of human nature at its worst and its best. Bower is generous with the emotional details, never hesitating to illuminate the effects of suffering on the human psyche."
AudioFile Magazine
"But this book is not just good; it's breathtakingly good. This is Tsiolkas surely making his ascent to the position of one of Australia's pre-eminent contemporary novelists. The promise of his acclaimed first novel Loaded and its ill-treated follow-up, The Jesus Man, is delivered in spades in this epochal work about the big themes for our time: history, migration, blood, belonging, poverty, refuge, anti-Semitism - take your pick and add some more."
The Age