Synopsis
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. 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.
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. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by memories of the European war and other, more recent horrors. 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. 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.
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Review
"Enthralling and powerful" (The Times)
"This is a confident and poignant novel and succeeds in animating a set of people rarely seen in literary fiction" (Guardian)
"A rare and remarkable achievement" (Los Angeles Times)
"Destined to be a classic" (Melbourne Herald Sun)
"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. From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story" (Literary Review)
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‘A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling . . . It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once, and ultimately achieves he kind of spirit-healing few novels do’ Niall Williams, author of Four Letters of Love
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