The Slap

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WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 'The Slap is nothing short of a tour de force. Tsiolkas puts a microscope to family life and preserits us with a vision both of unflinching honesty and great tenderness. Here is a növel of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Don DeLillo's UnderworldColm Toíbín At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly three-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Christos Tsiolkas presents the impact of this apparently minor domestic incident through the eyes of eight of those who witness it. The result is an unflinching interrogation of the modern family, a deeply thought-provoking növel of boundaries and their limits... 'Brilliant, beautiful, shockingly lucid and neat, this is a növel as big as life, built from small, secret, closely observed beats of the humán heart. A cool, calm,... Tovább

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WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 'The Slap is nothing short of a tour de force. Tsiolkas puts a microscope to family life and preserits us with a vision both of unflinching honesty and great tenderness. Here is a növel of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Don DeLillo's UnderworldColm Toíbín At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly three-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Christos Tsiolkas presents the impact of this apparently minor domestic incident through the eyes of eight of those who witness it. The result is an unflinching interrogation of the modern family, a deeply thought-provoking növel of boundaries and their limits... 'Brilliant, beautiful, shockingly lucid and neat, this is a növel as big as life, built from small, secret, closely observed beats of the humán heart. A cool, calm, irresistible masterpiece.' Chris Cleave 'Once in a while a növel comes along that reminds me why I love to read: The Slap is such a book. Christos Tsiolkas throws open a window on society, picks apart its flaws, embraces its contradictions and recognises its beauty, all the time asking the reader: whose side are you on? Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium.' John Boyne Sí* ,/' Vissza