The slap

ISBN: 9781848878600
ISBN: 1848878605
ISBN: 9781554688395
ISBN: 1554688396
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Canada, 2010.

Tsiolkas, Christos 1965- (author.).

Summary: At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern 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 barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.