The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas6/21/2023 'Brilliant, beautiful, shockingly lucid and real, this is a novel as big as life built from small, secret, closely observed beats of the human heart. The Slap, which won its author, Christos Tsiolkas, the Commonwealth Writers’ Award for Best Novel last year, begins with one momentous incident the slapping of an intensely annoying four. Here is a novel of immense power and scope.' COLM TOIBIN, author of Brooklyn ' The Slap is nothing short of a tour de force, and it confirms Christos Tsiolkas's reputation as one of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today. The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto. Tsiolkas throws open a window on society, picks apart its flaws, embraces its contradictions and recognises its beauty, all the time asking the reader, Who side are you on? Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium.' JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 'Once in a while a novel comes along that reminds me why I love to read: The Slap is such a book. Poignant and provocative, THE SLAP makes us question the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching interrogation of the life of the modern family. It is a single act, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives dissected in Christos Tsiolkas' award-winning novel, now in paperback.Īt a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
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