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By Christos Tsiolkas
ISBN-10: 1554688396
ISBN-13: 9781554688395
At a suburban barbeque, a guy slaps a toddler who's now not his own.This occasion has a surprising ricochet impression on a gaggle of individuals, generally associates, who're without delay or in a roundabout way inspired via the development.
In this striking novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the trendy kinfolk and family existence within the twenty-first century. The Slap is informed from the issues of view of 8 those that have been current on the fish fry. The slap and its effects strength all of them to question their very own households and how they dwell, their expectancies, ideals and wishes.
What unfolds is a strong, haunting novel approximately love, intercourse and marriage, parenting and youngsters, and the fury and depth - the entire passions and conflicting ideals - that kin can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing heart category and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is usually a poignant, provocative novel concerning the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and fact.
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