Berzoo

by Errol Bray

The impact on my body was electric, like someone had stabbed me in the heart with a syringe of adrenalin ...

The journey ... the betrayal ... the revenge!

Berlin, 1995. The Wall is down, Christo has wrapped the Reichstag, and gay travel writer Roger Staines is fast approaching his fortieth birthday. He's experiencing the usual meaning-of-life angst, but things go completely berzoo when he meets Friedrich of the angelic looks, and Nikki of the flaming red hair.

Ricocheting between Sydney, Berlin and Venice, Roger is caught in a world that travel writing didn't prepare him for. Worse still, Roger has learnt how to use a gun and he can't put it down.

Errol Bray is a playwright; theatre director and dramaturg; founding director of major youth arts projects; and a sometime academic. He is from Sydney, lives in Brisbane, and travels a lot.

Berzoo is Errol Bray's first novel and won the Clouds of Magellan GLBT Novel Competition for an emerging novelist in 2010.

 

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