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Title: THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING
By: Richard Flanagan
Format: Paperback

List price: £8.99


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ISBN 10: 033035292X
ISBN 13: 9780330352925
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 12 March, 1999
Pages: 416
Description: 'A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling ... It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once, and ultimately achieves he kind of spirit-healing few novels do' Niall Williams, author of Four Letters of Love
Synopsis: 'Flanagan's enthralling and powerful novel centres on a Slovenian couple, Bojan and Maria Buloh, and their daughter Sonja. The story begins in 1954, when Sonja is three, and ends in 1990, when she is in her late thirties ...The novel begins with Maria Buloh ...leaving the wooden hut in the Tasmanian highlands which is now her home. A blizzard is blowing, and behind Maria three-year-old Sonja cries for her to come back -- but she does not ...To understand why Maria leaves her child is to understand a little the impact of Nazi occupation on those who were scarred for the rest of their lives by what they had seen ...The novel lives by its moments of defining truth' Helen Dunmore, The Times 'Like Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries, The Sound of One Hand Clapping achieves the difficult task of making clear and real the lives of those who normally stay hidden in history. From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story, beautifully told' Literary Review 'Richly imagined ...told in a voice rarely heard in Australia: almost violently masculine, shot through with heartbreaking delicacy of feeling' Robert Dessaix 'Flanagan imbues this most Australian of stories with a middle European sensibility found in the reserve of characters in Milan Kundera's writings ...[he] tells an immortal story of faith and hope, its loss and rebirth ...The Sound of One Hand Clapping is destined to be a classic' Sydney Herald Sun
Publication: UK
Imprint: Picador
Prizes: Winner of Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 1998 Short-listed for Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 1997
Returns: Returnable
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