Ari is 19, Greek, gay, unemployed and looking for something to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring destructive world of clubs and drugs, Ari eases his pain the only way he knows how.[...]

The sensational international bestseller by Australia's "preeminent contemporary novelist" ("The Age"), in his United States debut
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Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of "The Slap "(soon to be an NBC miniseries) returns in an "immensely moving" ("Sunday Times") story of a young athlete's coming of age
Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing [...]

At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. Now a major new television drama, airing on the BBC in November. Longlisted for the Man Booke[...]

Daniel Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the pool should drive him to fame and fortune, as well as his revenge on the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. But when he melts down at h[...]

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE SLAP is the most talked-about novel of 2010, and looks set to be the most read book of 2011.[...]

At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy.The boy is not his son.It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen.[...]

Et barn får en lussing af en voksen til en grillfest i et australsk forstadskvarter, og episoden udvikler sig til et kaos. Havde møgungen fortjent det, eller må man bare ikke slå børn?

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En solig eftermiddag vid en grillfest i en förortsvilla ger en av gästerna en trotsig treåring en örfil. Barnet är inte hans son.Örfilen delar hela umgängeskretsen i två läger: de som tycker att den är ett grovt övergrepp och de som tycker att incidenten var en bagatell. När pojkens för[...]

Stor nyhet i litet format!

Denna utgåva ges ut i det nya kvalitetformatet excess, som kombinerar lätthet, varaktighet och bekvämlighet. Bokens storlek är endast 8x12 centimeter och är tillverkad enligt gammal boktradition med trådbunden rygg.

En solig eftermiddag vid en g[...]