The slap

a novel

483 pages

English language

Published June 29, 2009 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-1-55468-645-2
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OCLC Number:
458721875

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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.

8 editions

Subjects

  • Families
  • Fiction
  • Children
  • Violence against
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Social life and customs
  • Manners and customs

Places

  • Australia