![]() Reviewers had confused the characters with their author: "I realised the difference reading Enid Blyton," he said. "It's not a misogynistic book it's about infantile men who are misogynistic," he said. ![]() One reviewer described the book as "Neighbours as Philip Roth might have written it" another called it "unbelievably misogynistic".Īt the weekend, Tsiolkas countered the charges. The story is told through the voices of eight characters, all of whom were present at the party. A three-year-old is misbehaving, and an adult, not the child's parent, administers a sharp slap. That must have an effect on your literature." Tsiolkas's The Slap, his fourth novel, takes as its starting point a barbecue in Melbourne. I feel Europeans are so much more class bound … it feels so much heavier here in Europe, not just in Scotland but in Greece, Italy. Tsiolkas, whose family emigrated to Australia from Greece, added: "Every time I come to Europe I feel less European. I want something more rigorous, more challenging than I am finding at the moment."īy contrast, the great books about the American suburban experiences, such as Couples, have "a fearlessness that I am hungry for", he said. ![]() He added: "They didn't talk about the real. I was instantly struck by how dry and academic they were, and not in the best way, in a cheap, shitey way," he told the Edinburgh international book festival. "A friend of mine gave me a book of the best European short stories of 2009. ![]()
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