Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary
Award.
Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers'
Prize
Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Vance
Palmer Prize for Fiction
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.
What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness,
The Slap
The Slap (TV Tie-In)
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives dissected in Christos Tsiolkas' award-winning novel, now a prime time ABC TV series, starring Melissa George and Alex Dimitriade... Buy or find out more →
The Slap
$59.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Dvd
Based on Christos Tsiolkas' international best-seller, The Slap is a provocative and compelling eight-part drama series that traces the shattering repercussions of a single event upon a group of family and friends. It is... Buy or find out more →
The Slap Soundtrack
$24.95 – Compact disc / Level Two
The Slap is a novel by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas. The eight-part television series, The Slap, is an adaptation of the book. It’s currently screening on Australian television channel ABC1. At a barbecue in subur... Buy or find out more →
The Slap
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary
Award.
Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers'
Prize
Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Vance
Palmer Prize for Fiction
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a ... Buy or find out more →
The Slap
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Special edition of the 2009 Commonweatlh Writers Prize winner, published to commemorate Allen + Unwin's 20th birthday celebrations - a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and th... Buy or find out more →
The Slap (Unabridged Audio CD)
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
The bestselling cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe turns his blowtorch onto the belly of middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behaviour. At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a... Buy or find out more →
