The slap
By: Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9781741758207
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Families; Fiction; Interpersonal relations; Belonging (Social psychology); Suburban life; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "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 on to 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."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: 2008.

The 2009 ABA and ABIA Book of the Year.

Winner 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize.