eldog
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I have just finished reading The Slap which is a multi award-winning novel (including 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards) by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas.
The premise is fairly simple: at a barbecue attended by a group of family and friends, an adult slaps an unrelated young child.
The novel centres around a Greek-Australian family but in leading roles we also have an Indian, an Aborigine, two Muslims, a Jew, assorted Australians and an English girl. The story is told through the voices of eight characters, in third person with each having a chapter of their own. The reverberations of the slap are told chronologically through each character's story.
The novel deals with personal relationships in a multicultural society and taps into the universal tensions of family life and child-rearing.
The premise is fairly simple: at a barbecue attended by a group of family and friends, an adult slaps an unrelated young child.
The novel centres around a Greek-Australian family but in leading roles we also have an Indian, an Aborigine, two Muslims, a Jew, assorted Australians and an English girl. The story is told through the voices of eight characters, in third person with each having a chapter of their own. The reverberations of the slap are told chronologically through each character's story.
The novel deals with personal relationships in a multicultural society and taps into the universal tensions of family life and child-rearing.