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The Slap Book

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...Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    An international bestseller that was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2009, The Slap tells how a man slaps an unruly three year-old, who is not his son, at a suburban Australian barbecue one afternoon. This single act of violence reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it, bringing into question their relationships with each other. This is a controversial novel from Christos Tsiolkas that presents a domestic incident from eight different perspectives, offering a thought-provoking and unflinching interrogation of modern family and domestic life.

  • BookDepository

    The Slap : Paperback : Atlantic Books : 9781848873551 : : 17 Aug 2010 : 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.

  • Blackwell

    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. Winner of the Commonwealth...

  • 1848873557
  • 9781848873551
  • Christos Tsiolkas
  • 1 May 2010
  • Tuskar Rock
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 496
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