Instances

At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy.The boy is not his own.It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it.Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinchi...

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.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 p...