Dead Europe - Christos Tsiolkas

From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.Winner of the 2006 Age Fiction Prize Winner of the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing AwardPart long-forgotten myth, part meditation on the violence and tragedy of contemporary Europe, Dead Europe is an unsettling story about blood lust and blood revenge; a novel of blazing brilliance from the acclaimed author of The Slap.Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling through Europe.
His whole life he has longed for the sophistication and wealth of the
Europe of his father's stories, the Europe at the centre of civilization
and culture. But behind the facade of a unified and globalized
contemporary society, he finds a history-blasted wasteland, a place
forever condemned by the ghosts of its unspeakable past. In the mountain
village in the Balkans where his mother was born, he unearths ancient
terrors that have not been laid to rest, and perhaps never can be.