I needed to find something definite, a line in the print where I could say I couldn't quite admit the horror of this novel to myself. you finally made my mind up for me and I have flung your horrid novel away from me in a graceless convulsion which mixed repulsion and depression in equal parts, with a dash of glee.īecause for many pages I was desperately seeking a casus belli. 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 commitment and happiness, compromise and truth. 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. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. 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. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap. At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
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