The Slap - Couverture souple

Tsiolkas, Christos

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1554686458 ISBN 13 : 9781554686452

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

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, compromise and truth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christos Tsiolkas is the author of three novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554686458
• ISBN 13: 9781554686452
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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