Little Hands Clapping - Hardcover

Rhodes, Dan

3.78

1,561 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847675298 ISBN 13: 9781847675293

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2010

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A tale of mortifying heartbreak, momentous love, horrifying deaths and delicious apfel kuchen, in which a spider-eating old man and the local doctor form an unlikely alliance, fate unites a heartbroken baker and a euphonium, the most beautiful girl and boy in the village find love, and the town's least effective policeman, with a little help from a dog called Hans, exposes a crime so grotesque that it will shock the nation.

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Review:

"Quirky and original, and the storytelling is truly virtuoso. A literary treasure." (LOUIS DE BERNI�RES [on TIMOLEON VIETA])

"Oh, how we love Dan Rhodes. Reliably odd but fabulous." (Guardian)

"Absolutely flawless comic writing. Original fresh and funny." (Observer [on GOLD])

"Surely the true best of Granta's Best [Young British Novelists] list. Everybody should go out and buy Timoleon Vieta Come Home ... A story worthy of W.G Sebald, universal in its scope and ambition." (ROSE TREMAIN Daily Telegraph)

"Rhodes is that real, rare thing - a natural storyteller." (PAUL BAILEY Sunday Times)

"Dan Rhodes's books are gloriously strange. Who but Rhodes would write a laugh-out-loud funny novel . . . Some people won't get it at all - indeed, will be enraged by it - but fans of The League of Gentlemen and Mitchell and Webb will see exactly what he's trying to do and love him for it." (Waterstone's Books Quarterly 2010-02-01)

"Suicide museum horror meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez romance, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Dan Rhodes." (John O'Connell Waterstone's Books Quarterly 2010-01-01)

"Little Hands Clapping ought to be the book that brings Rhodes out of the 'cult favourite' bracket . . . Indeed, the most moving aspect of the book is not what happens to the characters, but what it does to the reader: reading it is like taking a deep breath into the lungs of your imagination." (Scotland on Sunday 2010-01-24)

"Dan Rhodes is a storyteller par excellence, a purveyor of the bleakest, funniest black comedy around, and an author with no obvious peers . . . [Rhodes delivers] a strange, surreal gothic fable laced with humour and pathos, a novel with a heart-warming and all-too-rare humanity at the core of its inventive and more than a little strange plot . . . Combining heady romance, nihilism and despair, human failings, and a fair amount of spider munching, this is a unique, sparkling story. Dan Rhodes is a writer to treasure." (Doug Johnstone List 2010-01-23)

"The sense that this is a fairy story, with all the implications of a moral message and an investigation of human nature that come with it, runs through the book and is heightened by its title . . . His gentle yet clever telling of the monstrous events at the museum finds humanity in the horror and makes his characters' unpleasant antics seem almost whimsical . . . After reading Rhodes's book, many little hands should be clapping very loudly indeed." (Alice Fisher Observer 2010-01-31)

Book Description:

The darkest, most twisted novel yet from the author of Timoleon Vieta Comes Home

'Totally sick and brilliant. He sucks you into his world. I loved it.' Douglas Coupland

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