Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation...This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go.

Merciless Gods -- Tourists -The hair of the dog -- Petals -- Hung phat! -- Saturn return -- Genetic material -- Jessica Lange in Frances --The disco at the end of communsm -- Sticks, stones -- Civil war --The t-shirt with a fist on it -- Porn 1 -- Porn 2 -- Porn 3.