The Slap (Audiobook)

Before The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas was the author of four novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He won Overall Best Book the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for The Slap. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.

‘… wildly energetic and fearless, thrillingly about our lives now’ Helen Garner

‘Whose side are you on? Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new
millennium.’ John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

‘… nothing short of a tour de force … a novel of immense power and scope.’ Colm Toibin,
author of Brooklyn

‘A cool, calm, irresistible masterpiece.’ Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand

• Winner, Overall Best Book the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009
• Winner, ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2009 and Overall Book of the Year 2009
• Winner, ABA Book of the Year 2009 Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2009
• Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2009
• Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Prize 2009 Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award 2008
• Longlisted, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2010