Even when we live in cities, as most of us do, Australians fear fire. It is an original, disturbing novel that confirms Roger McDonald as one of Australia's foremost chroniclers of rural life and the complexities of the human heart.įire. Told over the span of a lifetime, The Slap reveals the redemptive power of friendship and love in a story that delivers its surprises to the very end. The story of their friendship - unlovable withered frog, it was only ever Ruby who could reach him with her great little heart - forms the centrepiece of the novel until the dramatic appearance of Kel, a boy with a talent for loyalty and a love of knives, and Tanner's life changes absolutely. Only one person, Ruby, doesn't turn away from him. Obsessed with fire and explosives, he lies, cheats and steals his way through a childhood set on a course of opposition and destruction. He grows up wild in isolated, windswept countryside, the child of misplaced artistic parents. But there seems perilously little promise in it. Tanner Hatton Finch is granted life that day. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.The slap in the title of Roger McDonald's fifth novel is a life-giving blow delivered to a baby boy at the font of an Australian country church, over fifty years ago.
What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century.
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event.
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