‘… nothing short of a tour de force … a novel of immense power and scope. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. Millennium.’ John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘Whose side are you on? Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas brilliantly weaves together a maze of complex. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex, marriage, and the fury and intensity that family can arouse. ‘… wildly energetic and fearless, thrillingly about our lives now’ Helen Garner The reverberations from the slap are far-reaching, affecting the marriages and friendships of all those who witness it. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He won Overall Best Book the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for The Slap. Before The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas was the author of four novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award.
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