Christos Tsiolkas: 9 books

Book cover of The Slap

The Slap

A Novel

by Christos Tsiolkas
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto. In this powerful and riveting novel reminiscent of Liane Moriarty's Truly, Madly, Guilty, literary phenomenon Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly exposes the inner workings...
Book cover of On Patrick White

On Patrick White

Writers on Writers

by Christos Tsiolkas
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

‘Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound...
Book cover of Sticks, Stones

Sticks, Stones

Allen & Unwin shorts

by Christos Tsiolkas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

Compelling short fiction from Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap. 'My God,' she thought, a coldness settling in her, 'do I hate him?' After witnessing her teenage son insult a disabled girl, a mother struggles with contempt for her child.
Book cover of Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories
by Michael Earp, Michael Earp, Benjamin Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019

Twelve of Australia’s best writers from the LGBTQ+ community are brought together in this ground-breaking collection of YA short stories. What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #LoveOzYA collection, twelve of Australia’s finest writers from the LGBTQ+...
Book cover of Jesus Man
by Christos TSIOLKAS
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Féroce et dérangeant, un tableau de l'Australie de la fin des années 90, la dénonciation de nos sociétés vides de sens, qui créent des monstres hantés par la solitude et la haine de soi. Un des premiers romans de Christos Tsiolkas où pointent déjà la force, la rage et l'émotion qui allaient...
Book cover of Barracuda

Barracuda

A Novel

by Christos Tsiolkas
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to be an NBC miniseries) returns in an “immensely moving” (Sunday Times) story of a young athlete’s coming of age Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing...
Book cover of Barracuda
by Christos TSIOLKAS
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2015

​Après le succès international de La Gifle, le grand retour de l'enfant terrible des lettres australiennes. Porté par un style à fleur de peau, un roman coup-de-poing sur le dépassement de soi, le sacrifice, l'échec et la reconstruction, avec en toile de fond toutes les contradictions d'une...
Book cover of La Gifle
by Christos TSIOLKAS
Language: French
Release Date: January 27, 2011

Provocant, urgent, impitoyable, un roman coup de poing, une révélation dans la lignée d'un Don DeLillo ou d'un Jonathan Franzen. Lors d'un barbecue entre amis, un adulte gifle un enfant qui n'est pas le sien. Un incident qui va créer une onde de choc parmi les invités et provoquer...
Book cover of Des dieux sans pitié
by Christos TSIOLKAS
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2017

Âmes sensibles, s'abstenir ! Sauvages, puissants, dérangeants, crus, quinze textes portés par l'écriture rageuse de l'enfant terrible des lettres australiennes, pour continuer à nous interroger sur une société multiculturelle et décadente où couvent haine, racisme et frustration et où nous...
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