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November  Book   Club:   Tuesday,   16/11/2010   7:30 p.m.
Annotation:
    At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly
    three-year-old boy.

    The boy is not his son.

    It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the
    lives of everyone who witnesses it.

    Christos Tsiolkas presents the impact of this apparently minor
    domestic incident through the eyes of eight characters. The result
    is an unflinching interrogation of the modern family, a deeply
    thought-provoking novel of boundaries and their limits…

Author Biography:
    Christos Tsiolkas was born and grew up in Melbourne and was
    educated at Blackburn High School and the University of
    Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987.  He edited
    the student newspaper Farrago in 1988.

    Tsiolkas' first novel, Loaded (1995), was filmed as Head On (1998)
    by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades. In 2006, his
    novel, Dead Europe, won The Age Book of the Year fiction award.
    In 2009, his fourth novel, The Slap, won the Commonwealth
    Writers Prize 2009 for best novel in the South-East Asia and South
    Pacific area.
Location:  
    The Book Attic

Date:
    Tuesday, November 16th 2010, 7:30 P.M.  

Title:
    "The Slap" by Christos Tsiolkas
    Available in major bookstores and libraries.
Title Suggested by book lover Jennifer Li:                       
    "The Slap" by Christos Tsiolkas
    Category:                Literature
    ISBN:                       9780143117148
    Publisher:                Penguin
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