![]() ![]() ![]() Longlisted, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2010 0īooks That Made Us AustLit information trailĬhristos Tsiolkas is the author of six novels, including 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, as well as being made into a feature film.Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award 2008.Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Prize 2009.Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2009.Winner, ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2009 and Overall Book of the Year 2009.Winner Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021 AU Winner, Overall Best Book the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009.Poignant and provocative, THE SLAP makes us question the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching interrogation of the life of the modern family. It is a single act, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. ![]() To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives dissected in Christos Tsiolkas’ award-winning novel.Īt a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. ![]()
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