The Sound Of One Hand Clapping: Vintage Classic

Author: Richard Flanagan

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Price : $14.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781742755083
Publisher : Random House Australia
Imprint : Vintage (Australia)
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Weight (g) : 0.31
Publication date : 01 January 2012
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm X 29mm
Produced in : Australia
RRP : 14.99
Availability date : 01 February 2012
Out of print date : 03 May 2021
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Product Type : books

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Author : Richard Flanagan
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Edition : 212
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Language : en
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NOW AVAILABLE AS A VINTAGE CLASSIC EDITION Since its first publication in 1997, Richard Flanagan's classic story of migration and love has become one of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history. In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard never to return. Some thirty-five years later, when Sonja visits Tasmania and her drunkard father, the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present - changing forever his living death and her ordered life... THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING is about the underbelly of Australia, the barbarism of Europe, and the destiny of those in the country beyond hope who seek to redeem themselves through love. 'Heart-wrenching and beautifully written... A rare and remarkable achievement' -- LOS ANGELES TIME

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'Heart-wrenching and beautifully written... A rare and remarkable achievement' - Los Angeles Times.

Author description

RICHARD FLANAGAN was born in Tasmania in 1961. Regarded internationally as one of Australia's pre-eminent novelists, his multi-award-winning novels, DEATH OF A RIVER GUIDE, THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, GOULD'S BOOK OF FISH and THE UNKNOWN TERRORIST have been published to popular success and critical acclaim in twenty-five countries. His most recent book, WANTING, won the 2009 QLD Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the 2008 WA Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, was a 2008 New Yorker Notable Book, 2008 Library Journal Notable Book, 2008 London Observer Book of the Year, and 2008 Washington Post Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award. He directed a feature film version of THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING and collaborated with Baz Luhrmann on the script for Luhrmann's blockbuster AUSTRALIA. He lives in Hobart with his family. http://www.richardflanaganwanting.com.au

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.