The Slap

Name: The Slap
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Christos Tsiolkas
ISBN: 9781848873551

Christos Tsiolkas

01/05/2010
Atlantic Books

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Couverture de The Slap par Christos Tsiolkas

Résumé

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. Christos Tsiolkas presents the impact of this apparently minor domestic incident through the eyes of eight of those who witness it. The result is an unflinching interrogation of the life of the modern family, a deeply thought-provoking novel about boundaries and their limits...