The sound of one hand clapping / Richard Flanagan.
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TextPublisher: New York : Grove Press, c1997Description: 425 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802137845 [paperback]Subject(s): Fathers and daughters -- Fiction | Alcoholics -- Fiction | Australia -- Fiction | Tasmania -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction.DDC classification: Summary: A dazzling novel of war, family, migration, and the search for new beginnings, The Sound of One Hand Clapping is a virtuoso performance from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers. In the winter of 1954 , in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, three-year old Sonja Buloh lived with her Slovenian immigrant parents. One night, Sonja's mother Maria walked off into a blizzard, never to return-leaving Sonja with a father who drinks too much to quiet his sorrow. Thirty-five years later, Sonja has returned to Tasmania to make peace with a past that intrudes ever more forcefully into her present. As their story unfolds, it will transform forever Sonja's guarded, empty existence and her father's living death. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the rough lives of laborers in a young country: about the barbarism of the old world left behind; about people apparently without hope, seeking redemption through love.
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A dazzling novel of war, family, migration, and the search for new beginnings, The Sound of One Hand Clapping is a virtuoso performance from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers. In the winter of 1954 , in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, three-year old Sonja Buloh lived with her Slovenian immigrant parents. One night, Sonja's mother Maria walked off into a blizzard, never to return-leaving Sonja with a father who drinks too much to quiet his sorrow. Thirty-five years later, Sonja has returned to Tasmania to make peace with a past that intrudes ever more forcefully into her present. As their story unfolds, it will transform forever Sonja's guarded, empty existence and her father's living death. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the rough lives of laborers in a young country: about the barbarism of the old world left behind; about people apparently without hope, seeking redemption through love.
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