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Best known for his most recent novels, The Slap and Barracuda, Merciless Gods is Christos Tsiolkas's first published collection of short stories.
The themes of many of the stories in this collection are strongly connected to Christos's life experiences as a gay man and as the son of (Greek) immigrant parents. Yet they also explore the universal trials of friendship, family relations, love, aging and death.
It is sometimes difficult to see past some of the cruder scenes and language in his stories, ...more
Excellent set of short stories. I really enjoyed this book and wished that most of the stories were longer! Some of the stories were very disturbing, yet I couldn't stop reading. Hope he writes another set.
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