Book

Slap
Christos Tsiolkas
Allen and Unwin
Fiction
At a suburban barbeque a man slaps a child who is not his own and this act has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. Told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue this is a novel about the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century and a dissection of the growing middle class and itâ s aspirations and fears. An engrossing contemporary novel about what makes â familyâ , loyalty, love, truth and compromise.
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