The Sound of One Hand Clapping
by Richard Flanagan
1997 / 425 pages
rating  8.5 / contemp fict – Australia

With this novel I’ve read all of Flanagan’s books except Death of a River Guide – my favorite by far is Gould’s Book of Fish but the others are very good,   especially The Narrow Road to the Deep North which won the Booker Prize this year.

The setting for The Sound of One Hand Clapping is the east coast of New Zealand. somewhere near Hobart but toward the mines where many Czechoslovakians, sometimes with families,  >>>>MORE>>>>