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Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

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Christos Tsiolkas

Dymphna Flynn

Bookclub: Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap

04/05/2014

Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap

Christos Tsiolkas talks to James Naughtie and readers about his 2010 novel The Slap.

James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Australian novelist Christos Tsiolkas about his controversial and award-winning debut The Slap.

With James Naughtie.

Australian novelist Christos Tsiolkas responds to readers' questions about his award-winning debut The Slap. 
The book generated considerable debate - should you slap a child who's misbehaving, but isn't yours? In this controversial novel Tsiolkas presents an apparently harmless domestic incident from eight very different perspectives and examines how its aftermath reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. 
He explains how he uses this one event to discuss the realities of contemporary Australian society - its materialism and racial prejudices, and how lives of the immigrants' children are so different from their parents'.

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