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. In this 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.
The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs, and desires. 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. 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.
Tsiolkas's style is direct, vulgar on a regular basis, but also nice and delicate, precise in the descriptions and consistently sincere. You can't say that less is more for Tsiolkas, for him, nothing is too much.
There is one more good thing about this novel. The story does take place in Australia, but our storytellers come from different ethnical and cultural backgrounds, so we have different views on life in Australia and in general.
The nail polish is Barry M from the line Gelly Hi Shine with the name Rose Hip. I like the colour very much, is a pastel pink and it looks even more beautiful in the summer when you are a little bit more tanned. But the application, not so great. The brush is very small, so you have to go over your nail multiple times and with that you are only moving the colour around, making a mess. Still I somehow managed to make it presentable with two coats.
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