Credit: And the man who was originally known as Saul of Tarsus is a figure of extraordinary drama and eloquence. Shame, squalor and the birth of the Christian church: Christos Tsiolkas's wild ride to Damascus Thomas, Timothy and the ‘miserably homosexual’ Paul are rendered real in Tsiolkas…
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Tsiolkas is a Richmond Football Club supporter and openly gay. …
To Christos Tsiolkas fans expecting something in the vein of his riveting bestsellers The Slap and Barracuda, the sixth novel by this Australian writer may come as a shock.We're not in Melbourne any more. Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas review — wrestling with the Christians The author of The Slap takes on the birth of the church, says James Walton. What we get in Christos Tsiolkas’s novel Damascus is a treatment of Jesus’s teaching that is raw, hard-edged and viscerally affecting. Damascus, by Christos Tsiolkas, Atlantic, RRP£16.99, 423 pages. He lives with his partner in Melbourne. Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church.
Also the academics Tsolkias’ consults are atheists of varying degrees. I appreciate that Damascus is fiction, but Tsiolkas’ obsession with the Gnostics and apocryphal writers (even consulting the Quran) as his sources is mystifying. Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church.
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Congratulations to Christos Tsiolkas for winning the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Fiction 2020! Well done Kerryn Goldsworthy for articulating Christos Tsiolkas's motivation as a reimagining of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus and his life as a witness to the light of God in our world. Most of us know the story of how Saul was struck down by the blinding light of God on the road to Damascus. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas.
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Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas. Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church.
Christos Tsiolkas is one of Australia's most courageous writers. Borrow a copy of Damascus from the Academic Centre and explore a fine work of literary fiction that encompasses the historical events surrounding the establishment of the Christian Church. Tsiolkas' 2019 novel Damascus won the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction.
He has published six novels, several of which have been adapted for the screen. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe. Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church.
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Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church. Damascus is one of the standout novels of the year, delivered to us by the incomparable and singular writer who is Christos Tsiolkas, an author who reinvents himself with every single one of his books, but who always delivers the same boldness of vision in his trademark uncompromising, muscular style.