As you might expect from an Australian author, this book tells it to you straight to the extent that, as you might expect from the title, it hits you right in the face. The Slap explores modern behavioural correctness in a world, and a language, where morality seems to have been turned upside down. For all its directness, this is a 21st Century book that deserves the praise that has been heaped upon it. But you might want to read it yourself before you lend it to your Mum.
March 2011 Book of the Month.
Click here to see Christos Tsiolkas' new book, Barracuda, which is published in January 2014.
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.
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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.
The Slap features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Books of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Slap was written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Atlantic Books
The Slap has 485 pages
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