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The Sound of One Hand Clapping Richard Flanagan

The Sound of One Hand Clapping By Richard Flanagan

The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan


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'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

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The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan

'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

About Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) is an author, historian and film director. He was born in Tasmania, and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. His first novel, The Death of a River Guide, won major Australian literary prizes, and his second, Sound of One Hand Clapping , was similarly well received, both in his home country and abroad. It was later turned into a feature film, which Flanagan himself directed. He currently lives in Tasmania with his wife and three children.

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GOR001742444
9780330352925
033035292X
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
19990312
416
Winner of Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 1998 Short-listed for Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 1997
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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