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

  • Written by: 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 worldChristos TsiolkasSarah 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...

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