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This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go.
My thoughts:
A bunch of short stories from Tsolkas. He is rather merciless, brutal and likes to shock with his words. He is honest in his words. And he writes beauty in darkness.
Here are some short thoughts about all the short ones:
Merciless Gods
Friends telling revenge stories to each other. Interesting, revenge is always good to read about,
Tourists.
Tourists in NY. The couple fight and feel lost. I did not understand the woman...
The hair of the dog
A man thinks about his mother. She wrote freaky books.
Petals.
This one was, well it was just an inner monologue (mostly).
Hung phat
I get it now. Most are short insights into lives. Normal, but interesting.
Saturn Return
He does like to write about what he knows, Greeks in Australia.
Genetic material
Sometimes these are just weird..good, but weird
Jessica Lange in Frances
And another theme is of course being gay. Knowing you are. Exploring what you might be.
The disco at the end of Communism
A man thinking about the brother he lost
Sticks, stones
A woman wondering if she hates her son
Civil war
White Au against dark AU
The t-shirt with the fist on it
Tourists in the middle east. With a twist
Porn 1
A woman finding about her son's secret life
Porn 2
The making of a porno. Sad
Porno 3
About a man who thinks loving another man is wrong.
I liked the stories. They were all different, even if the theme behind many were the same. Being Greek, having Immigrant parents and being Gay.
Conclusion:
Many times with short stories you are left thinking I want more, in that way that they felt too short, they did not work. But Tsalkos makes his short stories work. He does have that power of putting a story together in a short story, and leaving you satisfied at the end.
Many times with short stories you are left thinking I want more, in that way that they felt too short, they did not work. But Tsalkos makes his short stories work. He does have that power of putting a story together in a short story, and leaving you satisfied at the end.
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Paperback, 336 pages
Expected publication: September 3rd 2015 by Atlantic Books (first published November 1st 2014)
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