Sound of One Hand Clapping - Softcover

Flanagan, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802137849 ISBN 13: 9780802137845

Verlag: Black Cat, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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 best-seller in Australia. It is a virtuoso performance from an Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. It was 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, where Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return -- leaving Bojan to drink too much to quiet his ghosts, and to care for his three-year-old daughter Sonja alone. 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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Reseña del editor

Years after leaving the home where she had grown up with an alcoholic father and a mother who disappeared one day in the middle of a blizzard, Sonja Buloh returns to Tasmania to make peace with her tortured past. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black Cat
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802137849
• ISBN 13: 9780802137845
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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