I have started The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. This is my next book club selection. I am disconcerted by the large number of Amazon 1-star reviews, but I will certainly give it a go and form my own opinion. Here is the blurb:
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 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 happen.
Christos Tsiolkas presents the impact of this apparently minor domestic incident through the eyes of eight of those who witness it. The result is an unflinching interrogation of the life of the modern family, a deeply thought-provoking novel about boundaries and their limits.
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