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The Sound Of One Hand Clapping is described as a 'heartbreaking story, beautifully told' by the Literary Review, and it delivers from its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion.
Written by the winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Sound Of One Hand Clapping is one of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history.
In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, three-year-old Sonja Buloh experienced the loss of her mother, who walked into a blizzard never to return, against the backdrop of a father who drank excessively.
Some thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania to visit her inebriated father. The shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, changing forever both his living death and her ordered life.
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ISBN: 9781761048166
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 May 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 294g
Pages: 432
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Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as 'one of our greatest living novelists' and as 'among the most versatile writers in the English language' by the New York Review of Books. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould's Book of Fish. His most recent book is Question 7.
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