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Original Title:	The Slap
ISBN:	1741753597 (ISBN13: 9781741753592)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011), Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2009), Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2009), Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (2008) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2009), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2009), ALS Gold Medal (2009), Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2010)

The Slap Hardcover | Pages: 485 pages

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Title	:	The Slap
Author	:	Christos Tsiolkas
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 485 pages
Published	:	October 11th 2008 by Allen & Unwin Australia
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Contemporary

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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 slap.

In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto 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. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth.

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Ratings: 3.2 From 25732 Users | 3104 Reviews

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A group of people are gathered at a suburban Barbecue. During the afternoon an incident between one of the guests and a four year old result in consequences that directly, or indirectly, affect all who are present.Told as a collection of short stories through the perspective of eight characters, all with different background, age, ethnicity and value systems, The Slap is a provocative, unflinching novel that explores our inner most beliefs and the conflicting issues we face. I enjoyed having a

This is a thought-provoking, bold and gripping read. The characters were challenging and multi-faceted because as the story progressed revelations about their past would make them appear in a different light and the motive of their actions would also alter the reader's views about them. The descriptions of graphic sex scenes and an overuse of swear words spoiled it for me at times as I cringed or flinched trying to wade through explicit sections which in my view were not necessary and the crude

I positively HATED that book. I only finished it, because when I start a book, well I just finish it.First of all... Language. There is at least one occurrence of the word fuck fucking or even cunt... I am no prude, but in this case, it was way too often, and totally unnecessary. That was one of the first thing that ruined this book for me. Especially when you have the 70 something greek granddad, talking to his long lost friends and saying hello you cocksucker... totally unrealistic and again

From very early on I just didn't care about any of the characters, they were all awful!! I finished it, but hate that I wasted my time on this book and these horrible people.

The Good - An easy enough read with interesting topics of debate (whether it's appropriate to hit a child, fidelity, drugs), and a modern/diverse cast of characters. I read somewhere that it's like a long episode of neighbours,but souped with with lots of swearing... pretty accurate. The Bad - The title of the book. The opening chapter - characters are introduced at a very fast pace so you've not a clue who is who. Language used isn't amazing, cliches, lots of pointless swearing (Too much use of

Having sat on my to-read shelf for years, I took this on a plane trip recently. I expected to leave it abandoned in my seat pocket for another person. Instead I found it hard to put down.The premise of the story would never happen in reality at a party of adult friends and their children, Hugo, a four year old, goes to wack another child with a cricket bat and the father of the target stops this happening by slapping Hugo on the face. The parents of Hugo insist on police involvement and the

At a suburban barbeque, one slap will change the lives of these people. Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly looks at domestic life in the Australian suburbs in the twenty first century. The slap and its consequences cause everyone to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. A gripping novel of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth from the very start to the end.Youll either love it or hate it; Christos Tsiolkas controversial novel The Slap is