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Dead Europe is a 2005 magical realist, Gothic novel written by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas. [1] It is his third novel and was published by Vintage Random House. The novel primarily follows its protagonist Isaac Raftis' experiences as he travels across Europe in the early 2000s.
Jan 1, 2005 · Christos Tsiolkas is the author of nine 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.
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Christos Tsiolkas: Dead Europe. Tsiolkas has made no secret of his contempt for Europe, despite the fact that he is the son of Europeans. While this novel is not a straightforward condemnation of Old Europe à la Donald Rumsfeld, he certainly is very inclined to show up what he considers as the faults of old Europe.
Christos Tsiolkas. Vintage, 2005 - Fiction - 411 pages. From the acclaimed author of The Slapcomes an unsettling novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history. The basis for a major...
Jul 18, 2021 · Dead Europe is not the kind of book you forget in a hurry. It was written by Christos Tsiolkas before he achieved international success with The Slap (in 2008). Like that novel, it is confronting.
Winner of the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. Part long-forgotten myth, part meditation on the violence and tragedy of contemporary Europe, Dead Europe is an unsettling story about blood lust and blood revenge; a novel of blazing brilliance from the acclaimed author of The Slap.
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Nov 20, 2011 · Dead Europe has more in common with The Slap than the Australian author's debut, Loaded, published earlier this year, and it shares with The Slap a rather bleak view of humanity.