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The Sound of One Hand Clapping is a 1997 novel by Australian author Richard Flanagan. The title is adapted from the famous Zen kōan of Hakuin Ekaku. The Sound of One Hand Clapping was Flanagan's second novel. The Novel tells the story of Slovenian immigrants. [1]
The line, "Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" is a traditional Zen koan , and the novel takes its title from this. Burgess explained the title as follows: "The clasped hands of marriage have been reduced [by the novel's end] to a single hand.
The Sound Pattern of English (frequently referred to as SPE) is a 1968 work on phonology (a branch of linguistics) by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. In spite of its title, it presents not only a view of the phonology of English, but also contains discussions of a large variety of phonological phenomena of many other languages. The index lists ...
Jodi Picoult is voting for books this election season.. The bestselling author teamed up with PEN America, a nonprofit organization championing writers and books, to encourage readers to consider ...
The Sound of Thunder is a novel by the Rhodesian writer Wilbur Smith. It is the second book in the Courtney Series and it is set several years after the first book, When the Lion Feeds , focusing around the Second Boer War .
Kawabata received the 1954 Noma Literary Prize for The Sound of the Mountain. For the first U.S. edition (1970), Seidensticker won the National Book Award in the category Translation. [7] The Sound of the Mountain is included in the Norwegian Bokklubben World Library's list of the 100 greatest works of world literature, which was established in ...
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