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The Slap
The Slap
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Published:
1 May, 2010
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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, this title is an international bestseller. At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own...The reverberations call into question the relationships between all those who witness it. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. In his controversial, award-winning novel, Christos Tsiolkas presents an apparently harmless domestic incident as seen from eight very different perspectives. The result is an unflinching interrogation of our lives today; of the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century, a deeply thought-provoking novel about boundaries and their limits...
Prizes
Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: International Author of the Year 2010.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781848873551 |
| ISBN10 | 1848873557 |
| Number Of Pages | 496 |
| Item Weight | 557 g |
| Product Dimensions | 136 x 38 x 212 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Atlantic Books |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main |
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Media Reviews
'With The Slap, Tsiolkas secures his place as one of Australia's most important novelists.' The Age
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Author's Bio
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of four novels: The Slap, Loaded (filmed as Head-On) The Jesus Man and Dead Europe. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.