Above, a 5-minute 'Boo' of comments on the Man Booker long-listed novel The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. The novel has been hugely successful in this part of the world over the last couple of months, but has divided readers and critics, with Tsiolkas being accused of misogyny in particular. Read Sinead Gleeson's interview with the author in yesterday's Irish Times here.
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
'The Slap' by Christos Tsiolkas
Above, a 5-minute 'Boo' of comments on the Man Booker long-listed novel The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. The novel has been hugely successful in this part of the world over the last couple of months, but has divided readers and critics, with Tsiolkas being accused of misogyny in particular. Read Sinead Gleeson's interview with the author in yesterday's Irish Times here.
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