The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Download or read book The Sound of One Hand Clapping written by Richard Flanagan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 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, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit 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.