Mass market edition of Tsiolkas' controversial, bestselling novel. Depicts the fallout of a slap administered to a child by a non-family member at a suburban barbecue in Melbourne. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. This will be supported by Atlantic's biggest ever marketing campaign. It's also up for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award! 'Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium.' John Boyne