The Sound of One Hand Clapping
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return.Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father. The shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, changing forever his living death and her ordered life.
Additional information
Weight | 0.312 kg |
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Dimensions | 3 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 448 |
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Year Published | 2016-5-26 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 1784704180 |
About The Author | Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in 2014. |
Review Quote | Enthralling and powerful |
Other text | This is a confident and poignant novel and succeeds in animating a set of people rarely seen in literary fiction |