Books
by Christos Tsiolkas
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The Slap |
Winner of a couple of this year's Australian literary prizes. All I can say is that the judges must have very boring lives at the moment. Every few pages the characters experience spontaneous priapic eruption! This focus makes it hard to get close to them. When clothed, the protagonists could be anyone! A shame, because the social issues the book attempts to explore - multiculturalism and child abuse - tend to drop out of sight.
(Margaret Teh - bwl 52 July 2009) |
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