- Title:
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The Slap
- Written by:
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Christos Tsiolkas
- Published by:
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Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
- Published:
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November 01 2009
- Read by:
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Alex Dimitriades
- Number of CDs / Tapes:
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13
- Duration:
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16 hours
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- Genre:
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General
- Available Date:
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November 28 2009
- ISBN:
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9781742335377
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781742335377
- BAB:
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MP3 091138;CD 091260
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About this book:
"The Slap is a disturbing book but it is also funny and endearing, presenting the diversity of the Australian experience with a big, warm heart in the middle." - The Independent Weekly.
"...The publicity accompanying The Slap says it will launch Tsiolkas into a mainstream audience. For once, publicity is on the knocker. This is a perfect summer book - not too demanding but a lovely juggle of colour and good stories." - Sydney Morning Herald
"...Tsiolkas has written an absolute ripper." - The Age
The bestselling cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe turns his blowtorch onto the belly of middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behaviour.
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event.
In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.
What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.