Vernon White (International) assertion Vernon White i(19278450 works by)
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1 Beliefs Mattered Then : A Brutal Imagining of the Early Christian Lives in Damascus by Chris Tsiolkas Vernon White , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 17 April 2020;

— Review of Damascus Christos Tsiolkas , 2019 single work novel

'This novel explodes into life with one of the most arresting openings since Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love. A girl is stoned to death. In many respects it is unlike McEwan’s description of a man falling to his death: the shock is not wrung out in the same slow motion; it is not, primarily, a narrative about the slippery nature of knowledge, ambiguity, responsibility. Instead it is a stark and unambiguous depiction of human brutality towards the despised, the utter failure of empathy. But the same generative power is there. The image sets a course, and a tone, for the rest of the book.' (Introduction)

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