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At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly three-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. Christos Tsiolkas records what happens next.It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. In his remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas presents the impact of this apparently minor domestic incident through the eyes of eight characters. The result is an unflinching interrogation of the modern family, a deeply thought-provoking novel of boundaries and their limits."The slap that I wanted to deliver with that book was to a culture in Australia that had literally made me sick, sick to the stomach. A middle class culture that struck me as incredibly selfish and ungenerous ... I wanted to try and write a book ... that represented that culture. And to do that, honestly, I had to put myself in the middle of it. I also had to put my Greekness in the middle of that book. Because I didn’t feel separate from the things that were disgusting me." - Christos Tsiolkas, Journal of Intercultural Studies 2013"[Tsiolkas] holds to a discipline of sympathy with his characters, no matter how repellent they may be, and restricts his own verbal

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Author

Tsiolkas, Christos

Publisher

Penguin Group (USA)

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143117148

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (1,761 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14