The slap
Subtitle: a novel
By: Christos Tsiolkas
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9781554686452
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Families; Fiction; Children; Violence against; Interpersonal relations; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2008.

Best book winner, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2009.