Christos Tsiolkas - Damascus
Mon, 18 Nov
|The Vanguard
'Damascus' is the stunning new novel from Christos Tsiolkas, acclaimed author of 'The Slap'. It's a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope. Christos is in-conversation with Bri Lee!
Time & Location
18 Nov 2019, 6:30 pm – 8:10 pm
The Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
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About The Event
Damascus is the stunning new novel from Christos Tsiolkas. As you would expect from Christos, it's a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope.Â
Christos is in-conversation with Bri Lee.
Event tickets are just $5, or you can pre-order a copy of Damascus as part of a combination ticket and save $5 off your ticket! Â
About the Book
Damasucs takes 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 on from the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, Damascus nevertheless explores the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: class, religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, exile; the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united and divided - it's all here, the contemporary…
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