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100	1		_aFlanagan, Richard _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe sound of one hand clapping / _cRichard Flanagan.
260			_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _cc1997.
300			_a425 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_aA 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.
521			_aAdult
541			_xLauron, Rodello _yGeneral Education _zEducation : English
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aFathers and daughters _vFiction.
650		0	_aAlcoholics _vFiction.
651		0	_aAustralia _vFiction.
651		0	_aTasmania _vFiction.
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcsh
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcsh
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eocip _f19 _gy-gencatlg
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998			_cArgenette [new] _d02/08/2024
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