The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Posted on 13 December 2018 by Richard Flanagan

The Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year begins in 1954, in Tasmania where Bojan Buloh brings his family to start a new life away from Slovenia s privations of war and refugee settlements Bojan s wife abandons him to care for their three year old daughter Sonja alone Sonja returns to Tasmania 35 years later, and to a father haunted by memories of the war and other recent horrors. New Download The Sound of One Hand Clapping [ author ] Richard Flanagan [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This is a powerful and intensely sad novel, which deals with loss, alienation and the power of human beings to inflict pain on those they love most The title comes from a Zen koan a philosophical riddle formulated by the Japanese Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku, who asked You know the sound of two hands clapping tell me, what is the sound of one hand As I understand it, the student of Zen is supposed to meditate on this riddle until insight or enlightenment occurs The point is that there is no This is a powerful and intensely sad novel, which deals with loss, alienation and the power of human beings to inflict pain on those they love most The title comes from a Zen koan a philosophical riddle formulated by the Japanese Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku, who asked You know the sound of two hands clapping tell me, what is the sound of one hand As I understand it, the student of Zen is supposed to meditate on this riddle until insight or enlightenment occurs The point is that there is no correct answer The answer students come to depends on who they are, what they know and what they believe To me, the connection between the title and the narrative is that the reactions of the characters to the events t...I knew the title was a koan, but had to look it up What is the Sound of the Single Hand clapping When you clap together both hands a sharp sound is heard when you raise the one hand there is neither sound nor smell Is this the High Heaven of which Confucius speaks Or is it the essentials of what Yamamba describes in these words The echo of the completely empty valley bears tidings heard from the soundless sound Thi...This author s manner of writing doesn t fit me I tried to read Death of a River Guide several years ago and gave up I don t quit books very often I found that one confusing and disjointed There is such praise given to this author I felt my dislike had to be a misjudgment on my part, so I decided to try another book, this one The Sound of One Hand Clapping My view remains the same At least this time I finished the book I will try to be very specific about what in the writing disturbs me This author s manner of writing doesn t fit me I tried to read Death of a River Guide several years ago and gave up I don t quit books very often I found that one confusing and disjointed There is such praise given to this author I felt my dislike had to be a misjudgment on my part, so I decided to try another book, this one The Sound of One Hand Clapping My view remains the same At least this time I finished the book I will try to be very specific about what in the wri...Too long Or maybe I just took too long to get into it, left it too long in between times That is death to any book And it is a painful story Flanagan is stuck with a quandary two broken protagonists, damaged by the past, unable to feel, unable to speak, unable to reach out to each other How do you build a bridge between them and the reader How do you show the horror and the cruelty and the violence Flanagan uses a sweeping allegorical style, with the forc...Thus, it is decided now that this Book wins the most painfully depressing and heartbreaking ly frustratingly traumatizing sad book of 2016.Though it is written beautifully still I hated to read it I do not recommend to all It was so depressing that even while reading suicidal thoughts wrapped me in its gust Thanks to Sir Salman Rushdie, I picked his books and read 20 30 pages in between to switch me into neutral gear The story was pretty simple between a troubled relation of a father and dau Thus, it is decided now that this Book wins the most painfully depressing and heartbreaking ly frustratingly traumatizing sad book of 2016.Though it is writt...After readingGould s Book of FishI was eager to discoverof Richard Flanagan s work.In this book I found the same creative, descriptive writing style as in Gould s And despite there being instances where the writing style blends the past and present, magic and memories and borders on the surreal, the story itself comes through as clear and real as anything, without any of the eccentricities that made the plot of Gould s rather bizarre and confused at times The Sound of One Hand Clappin After readingGould s Book of FishI was eager to discoverof Richard Flanagan s work.In this book I found the same creative, descriptive writing style as in Gould s And despite there being instances where the writing style blends the past and present, magic and memories and borders on the surreal, the story itself comes through as ...This is the second book I ve read from Richard Flanagan I have to thank the World s Literature for the discovery.The first book I read from this author for our tour down under was Death of a River Guide In a certain way, I feel that both books are kind of the same, but with The Sound of One Hand Clapping being better After all, it was written after the first one, so the author had time to better himself.Both books are about poor families trying to survive in Tasmania, with jumps through times This is the second book I ve read from Richard Flanagan I have to thank the World s Literature for the discovery.The first book I read from this author for our tour down under was Death of a River Guide In a certain way, I feel that both books are kind of the same, but with The Sound of One Hand Clapping being better After all, it was written after the first one, so the author had time to better himself.Both books are about poor families trying to survive in Tasmania, with jumps through times Both are fantastically well writ...This book came with rave reviews but I have struggled with other Richard Flanagan books The slow start had me thinking this would be another tortured read I can t define the point which it took off but before long I couldn t put in down I now understand why thi...Recenzierecomand

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13 December 2018

Richard Flanagan