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The Slap
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and now a Major TV Series, THE SLAP was the most talked-about novel of 2010, and one of the most read books of 2011.
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 this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it.
'Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium.' John Boyne
About the author
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of four novels: Loaded (filmed as Head-On) The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. The Slap won the 2009 Commonwealth Writer's Prize, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
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