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Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland

Christos Tsiolkas's new novel celebrates a quiet ethics of care in a culturally noisy world

Christos Tsiolkas Sarah Enticknap/Allen & Unwin

Christos Tsiolkas’s eighth novel, The In-Between, is a work of social realism set in the immediate present – a return to the form and style of some of his most popular novels.

This follows his experiment with cinematic techniques and authorial presence in 7 ½ (2021), and the significant historical shift of Damascus (2019), which was based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focused on characters one or two generations from the death of Christ.

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