- Alcoholics, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, Sound of one hand clapping (Motion picture)
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.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Richard Flanagan
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 425
- Publisher
- Picador, Penguin Random House, Random House Australia
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780857989208
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Born in Tasmania in 1961, Richard Flanagan is one of Australia’s leading novelists. His novels, *Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish* (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), *The Unknown Terrorist* and *Wanting* have received numerous honours and been published in 26 countries. His father, who died the day Flanagan finished *The Narrow Road to the Deep North,* was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. ([Source)](http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/9780701189051)
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