Description
At a barbecue in a suburban Melbourne home, an unruly four-year-old boy is slapped by a man who isn't his father. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. The fallout from this split-second incident is huge. In his controversial, award-winning novel, Christos Tsiolkas presents an apparently harmless domestic incident as seen from eight very different perspectives. The result is an unflinching interrogation of our lives today; of the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century, a deeply thought-provoking novel about boundaries and their limits...