One Hand Clapping - Softcover
Marina longs for human contact but cannot bear to be touched, who signs up for an implantation programme and soon has hands growing all over her body. She takes up palmistry, and falls in love with one of the hands - Cecilio - it has a worryingly short life line and is devastated when it is forcibly removed. Searching for the rest of her beloved, Marina becomes involved with her strange extended family. Colton, the brother-in-law living in a hug box. Estra, the aunt imprisoning her husband inside her. And as for Dr. Hurtigger himself... ONE HAND CLAPPING is a compelling excursion into the foreign countries of the imagination. A complex futuristic fantasy inhabited by perilous desires, magic realism, psychological insight and black humour
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Marina longs for human contact and signs up for an implantation programme. She takes up palmistry, and falls in love with one of the hands - Cecilio - it has a short life line. Searching for the rest of her beloved, Marina becomes involved with her strange extended family.
About the Author:
Lise Leroux lives in Paris. She is a full time writer & illustrator & an experience sky diver. ONE HAND CLAPPING is her first novel, SHEEP TIPPING - a sky diving suspense novel - will also be published by Viking Penguin.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0670876712
- ISBN 13 9780670876716
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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