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Also by Richard Flanagan:

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, May 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Narrow Road To The Deep North, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Unknown Terrorist, May 2007
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Death of a River Guide: A Novel, March 2002
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping, March 2000
Hardcover
Gould's Book of Fish, November 0000
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THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING
By: Richard Flanagan

Atlantic Monthly Pr
March 2000
On Sale: March 1, 2000
425 pages
ISBN: 0871138026
Hardcover
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In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, three-year-old Sonja Buloh lived with her Slovenian immigrant parents. One night, Sonja's mother Maria walked off into a blizzard, never to return-leaving Sonja with a father who drinks too much to quiet the ghosts of World War II. Thirty-five years later, Sonja has returned to Tasmania to make peace with a past that intrudes ever more forcefully into her present. As their story unfolds, it will transform forever Sonja's guarded, empty existence and her father's living death. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the rough lives of laborers in a young country; about the barbarism of the old world left behind; about people apparently without hope, seeking redemption and healing through love.