TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tsiolkas, Christos
TI  - Damascus
SN  - 9781760875091
AV  - PR9619.3.T786 D36 2019
U1  - 823/.914A823.4 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW : 
PB  - Allen & Unwin, 
KW  - Paul,
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - History of Biblical events
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Apostles
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Persecution
KW  - History
KW  - Bible fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Religious fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of fathers and violate men before the eyes of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in the streets and the Judeans stone us. We are hunted everywhere and we are hunted by everyone. We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?' 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, refugees; the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united and divided - it's all here, the contemporary and urgent questions, perennial concerns made vivid and visceral."--Provided by publisher
ER  -