![]() ![]() The Slap is told via omniscient narrator through the eyes of several characters in turn. ![]() But what if it didn’t work that way? What if one of the parents, in the course of the brokering process, struck a child? Someone else’s child? In that case what you would have is Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap. In the normal course of things the parents glumly perform their duties and have an extra beer and the day shifts back into its pleasant rhythm. As the children bicker the adults inwardly wince, either because the situation is unpleasant or because the child belongs to them and they now have to broker the peace. ![]() The casual, relaxing get-together with friends that’s interrupted by the shrill misbehavior of someone’s child. Most of us have been there at one time or another. ![]()
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