TheSoundOfOneHandClapping
1999 Nominated

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp that festered like a bad wound in the remote Tasmanian wilderness, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother walked into a blizzard never to return. Some thirty-five years later, when Sonja visits Tasmania to see her drunkard father, the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Richard
Flanagan

Richard Flanagan lives in Tasmania where he was born in 1961. Five of his novels-Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting-have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

Richard Flanagan lives in Tasmania where he was born in 1961. Five of his novels-Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting-have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Australia
Publisher
Pan MacMillan Australia

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