| Record Number |
607278 |
| ISBN |
9781742145891 |
| Author |
Tsiolkas, Christos, 1965- |
| Title |
The slap [sound recording] / Christos Tsiolkas ; read by Alex Dimitiades. |
| Edition |
MP3 ed. |
| Publisher/Date |
Tullamarine, Vic. : Bolinda Audio, 2009. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 sound disc (MP3 CD) (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 ¾ in. ; in container. |
| Contents note |
160000 |
| Complete & unabridged. |
| Performer note |
MP3 CD. |
| Summary Note |
Read by Alex Dimitriades. |
| It 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. |
| Subject |
MP 3 cds can only be played on MP3 compatible sound systems |
| Talking books |
| Families -- Australia -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Domestic fiction |
| Added Author |
Australia Social life and customs |
| Shelf Location |
CD F TSIO |
