Copyrights and wrongs

摘要

The most talked-about book in Australia at present is "The Slap", a novel by Christos Tsiolkas, a Greek-Australian author, about the consequences of the disciplining of a child at a suburban barbecue by someone other than his parents. Its setting is emphatically antipodean and so, too, are its voices: eight characters drawn from Melbourne's polyglot middle classes.