An earlier, 2005 novel from the author of the Booker longlisted }The Slap{. Depicts a young man's journey in the land of his ancestors, which becomes a wild and page-turning flight from a crime that he did not commit, but is doomed to repeat. 'One of Tsiolkas's strengths is the ability to reveal gentleness lying where none might be expected.' Ian Syson, }The Age{