Ari is nineteen Greek gay unemployed looking for something
- anything
- to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne Torn between the traditional Greek world of his parents & friends & the alluring destructive world of clubs & drugs & anonymous sex all Ari can do is ease his pain in the only way he knows how Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap became an international bestseller & was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009 This is his sensational first novel