At a family celebration, a man slaps a foreign child. This fact divides the attendees, which some find mitigating and others demand the exemplary punishment of the guilty. In this shocking novel, Christos Tsiolkas intersects with a penetrating look and sharp language something that concerns us all: the form and role of the family in the 21st century. The story unfolds from the point of view of eight protagonists.
The unpredictable consequences of the slap will make everyone wonder and reconsider their own lives, family relationships, expectations, beliefs and desires. Love, sex, the institution of marriage, parent-child relationships, but also the conflicts, anger and passions that are born in the womb of every family are the true protagonists of this story that keeps the reader captive until the last page. .
The author sketches the portrait of the modern middle class with surgical precision, weaving a provocative, explosive novel about the nature of faith and happiness, our daily compromises and the search for truth.
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