- Title:
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The Slap
- Written by:
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Christos Tsiolkas
- Read by:
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Alex Dimitriades
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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15 hours 42 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2009
- Available Date:
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November 01 2009
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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9781742335377
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestseller
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / Book of the Year 2009
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2009
Longlisted Dublin IMPAC Award 2010
Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009
Winner The Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2009
Longlisted The Man Booker Prize 2010
"One of Australia's pre-eminent contemporary novelists."
The Age
"Riveting from beginning to end."
The Guardian
"... this is a beautifully structured and executed examination of the complexity of modern living; a compelling journey into the darkness of suburbia."
The Independent
The bestselling cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe turns his blowtorch onto the belly of middle-class suburban Australia.
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 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 loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.
"The Slap is a disturbing book but it is also funny and endearing, presenting the diversity of the Australian experience with a big, warm heart in the middle."
The Independent Weekly
"This is a perfect summer book – not too demanding but a lovely juggle of colour and good stories."
The Sydney Morning Herald
"...the great thing about The Slap is that it cannot be neatly summarised. Tsiolkas uses his premise as a guide-line to stabilise his larger structure, but his real talent is for exploring the inner lives of his eight primary characters, four women and four men, ranging in age from 18 to 70. And each of these characters is a sharp observer of those around him or her, so many more lives are illuminated as well."
The Guardian