The Slap: TV Tie-in

by Christos Tsiolkas (Author)

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  2011

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  WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009
  LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010

  'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times

  At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 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.

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  Paperback
  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...

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  2011

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  At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 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.