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The best-selling cult author of Loaded and Dead European countries here becomes his blowtorch onto the stomach of middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behavior. At a suburban barbecue, a guy slaps a kid who is not his own. This event has a surprising ricochet effect on a group of people, typically friends, who are straight or indirectly inspired by the incident. In this exceptional book, Christos Tsiolkas becomes his unflinching and all-seeing eyeball onto that which connects people: the modern family and domestic life in the 21st century. The Slap is informed from the things of view of eight people who had been present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force all of them to question their loved ones and just how they live, their anticipations, beliefs and dreams. What unfolds is a robust, haunting book about love, gender and matrimony, 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 income and its dreams and anxieties, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative book about the nature of loyalty and happiness, bargain and truth.
