The sound of one hand clapping

Richard Flanagan

Original title: The Sound of One Hand Clapping

first published 1997 Grove Press, 2000

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard never to return. Some thirty-five years later, when Sonja visits Tasmania and her drunkard father, the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present - changing forever his living death and her orde...

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Sound of One Hand Clapping edition · 2018 · Penguin Random House · 448 pages · 9780143790778
Klaśnięcie jednej dłoni edition · 2016 · Wydawnictwo Literackie · 9788308060841
Sound of One Hand Clapping edition · 2016 · Penguin Random House · 448 pages · 9781473545779
Sound of One Hand Clapping edition · 2016 · Penguin Random House · 9781784704186
The sound of one hand clapping edition · 2015 · Random House Australia · 425 pages · 9780857989208
Sound of One Hand Clapping edition · 2014 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802191977
Dispersés par le vent paperback · 2002 · Flammarion · 372 pages · 9782080681959
The sound of one hand clapping edition · 2000 · Picador · 174 pages
The sound of one hand clapping edition · 2000 · Grove Press · 9780802137845
The sound of one hand clapping edition · 2000 · Atlantic Monthly Press · 425 pages
The Sound of One Hand Clapping paperback · 1999 · Pan MacMillan · 416 pages · 9780330352925
The sound of one hand clapping edition · 1998 · Picador · 425 pages · 9780330360425

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