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[...]
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.[...]
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Read a review of "The Slap" on WorldNews.tk.Read a review of "The Slap" on Timesonline.co.uk.In this powerful and riveting novel, literary phenomenon Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly exposes the inner- workings of domestic life, friendship [...]
The sensational international bestseller by Australia's "preeminent contemporary novelist" ("The Age"), in his United States debut
Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Christos Tsiolkas's "The Slap" is a riveting page-turner and a powerful, haunting rumination on contemporary middle-[...]
Soon to be an NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto.
In this powerful and riveting novel, literary phenomenon Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly exposes the inner workings of domestic life, friendship, and parenthood in the twenty[...]
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[...]
The first two volumes in the series, which is based on the British Film Institute film studies, will be The Devil's Playground and The Mad Max Trilogy by Adrian Martin. The series aims to (re)introduce Australians to their own screen history and broaden their knowledge of screen culture.[...]
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[...]
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. Everything Danny has ever d[...]
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.[...]
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, this title is an international bestseller. At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own...The reverberations call into question the relationships between all those who witness it. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an u[...]
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.[...]
En rå, annerledes og energisk fortelling om moderne familieliv i et multikulturelt samfunn, om utroskap, sviktende familiekonstruksjoner og hvilke kompromisser man må inngå for å kunne leve sammen. Et tjuetalls mennesker er samlet til grillfest i et urbant middelklassestrøk i Melbourne. Pølse[...]
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?
Lussingen har været en litterær begivenhed, siden den udkom i 2009, og er blevet k[...]
"Jag har varit hårt inkapslad i dessa 500 sidor hela helgen, och det har varit härligt. Ungefär som att titta på fem avsnitt av "The Wire" på raken. Här har vi en bok som svarar mot det omättliga behovet av smart, bra underhållning," /DN om Christos Tsiolkas Örfilen, The Slap
En [...]
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[...]
När pojkens föräldrar bestämmer sig för att göra rättssak av det fördjupas konflikten och får konsekvenser långt utöver vad någon av deltagarna kunnat tänka sig. Vänskapen mellan gamla vänner sätts på prov och familjelojalitet ställs mot moral och principer.
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