3/25/2023 0 Comments Sound of one hand clapping![]() “Like Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries, The Sound of One Hand Clapping achieves the difficult task of making clear and real the lives of those who normally stay hidden in history. “A book of immense beauty which holds within it love, grief, and a dissection of the anatomy of hurting that is haunting and unforgettable.” – Canberra Times Powerful and disturbing.” – The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Short chapters of almost unbearable tension hack out the pasts of Maria, Bojan, and Sonja against a backdrop of wind and rain. “Flanagan is an accomplished ringmaster of despair and tenderness. how the fragmented can be made whole again.” – San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Combining acuity with lyricism, Flanagan chronicles the insidious effects of war. Flanagan has thoughtful things to say about history and the ordinary people whose lives are so powerfully affected by it.” – The Washington Post Book World sharp, vivid, original prose.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review ![]() Flanagan blends a strong yet delicate psychological sensibility with. “Heart-wrenching and beautifully written. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the barbarism of an old world left behind, about the harshness of a new country, and the destiny of those in a land beyond hope who seek to redeem themselves through love. ![]() As the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, Sonja’s empty life and her father’s living death are to change forever. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by memories of the European war and other, more recent horrors. In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her migrant Slovenian father was drunk, her mother Maria walked off into a blizzard, never to return. Recognized with the Australian Booksellers’ Book of the Year Award and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, it now introduces to an international readership a young Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a bestseller in Australia.
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