Tsiolkas, Christos , 1965 -

The slap : a novel / Christos Tsiolkas - Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. , 2008 - 483 p. ; 23 cm.

When a man slaps another couple's child at a neighborhood barbecue, the event send unforeseeable shockwaves through the lives of all who are witness to it. Told from the points of view of eight people who were present, The Slap shows how a single action can change the way people think about how they live, what they want, and what they believe forever.

Best book winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009

9781554686452

2009286210


Families----Fiction
Interpersonal relations----Fiction
Suburban life ---Fiction


Australia----Fiction

PR9619.3.T786 / S53 2008

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