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Loaded, which was made into the feature film head on. Dead europe, which won the age fiction award and the melbourne prize for literature best writing award. Torn between the traditional greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring, destructive world of clubs and drugs and anonymous sex, all ari can. The slap, which won its author, christos tsiolkas, the commonwealth writers award for best novel last year, begins with one momentous incident the slapping of an intensely annoying four. The reverberations from the slap are farreaching, affecting the marriages and friendships of all those who witness it. Discover book depositorys huge selection of christos tsiolkas books online. On face value it is a well written story of friends in suburban melbourne who have met for a bbq when one of the guests slaps a child who is not his.
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