The slap

Fülszöveg

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
In this rennarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the nnodern 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 bairbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question the way they live, their expectations and dreams, their beliefs and desires.
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Tsiolkas is a true ^ storyteller and a hundred ^ sentences could be j plucked from the text to ( demonstrate his genius ( for establishing place, f mood and character in { a handful of words.' '
David Marr,- Sydney Morning ' Herald, on Dead Europe '
This event has aTshocking ricochet effect on a oT
people, friends and relgfivf^, who are all directly or i^directl^
inflyenced by the slap.
. . ^
'New/Australia simply ^ needs more A-grade i vyriters like Tsiolkas.'
Natasha Clca, The/Ausfra/Zan
t '. . .... Tovább

Fülszöveg

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
In this rennarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the nnodern 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 bairbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question the way they live, their expectations and dreams, their beliefs and desires.
\
Tsiolkas is a true ^ storyteller and a hundred ^ sentences could be j plucked from the text to ( demonstrate his genius ( for establishing place, f mood and character in { a handful of words.' '
David Marr,- Sydney Morning ' Herald, on Dead Europe '
This event has aTshocking ricochet effect on a oT
people, friends and relgfivf^, who are all directly or i^directl^
inflyenced by the slap.
. . ^
'New/Australia simply ^ needs more A-grade i vyriters like Tsiolkas.'
Natasha Clca, The/Ausfra/Zan
t '. . . establishes Tsiolkas
t in the first rank of
s contemporary novelilis.'
I Cblrh Toibin, author of
I, , The Master on Dead Europe
What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity—all the passion's and conflicting loyalties—that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the evergrowing middle class and its aspirations and fears. The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth. Vissza