Dead Europe
By: Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780857891228
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Adult children of immigrants; Fiction; Australians; Travel; Villages; Families; Social conditions
Description: Isaac is a young Australian photographer travelling through Europe in search of the old-world sophistication of his father's stories and dismayed at the homogenous and globalized contemporary society he encounters. However, as he moves from country to country, the facade is slowly stripped away, revealing a continent condemned by the ghosts of its unspeakable past. When Isaac reaches the Balkan village where his mother was born, he encounters ancient terrors not yet laid to rest.