Little Hands Clapping
First edition cover
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| Author | Dan Rhodes |
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| Cover artist | David Roberts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Canongate Books |
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| Media type | Print & eBook |
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| ISBN | 1-84767-529-8 |
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Little Hands Clapping, is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes, published in 2010 by Canongate. Its title comes from a line in Robert Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Plot introduction
The novel centres around a bizarre German museum dedicated to suicide; Herr Schmidt, its grim grey curator; and the respectable Doctor Ernst Frölicher and his shocking secret.
Various characters are appear with short lifestories including the Luciano Pavarotti-obsessed founder of the museum and her Pavarotti-lookalike husband, Hulda the cleaner who believes she is doomed to Hell, and Madalena the suicidal Portuguese student.
Reception
- Totally sick and brilliant, He sucks you into his world. I loved it., Douglas Coupland[1]
- Almost every page of Little Hands Clapping has superb quirks or asides which will have the reader laughing. A sublime, brilliant novel, The Scotsman[2]
- It should please cynical idealists and idealistic cynics alike., Financial Times[3]
References
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- Little Hands Clapping at author's website
- Dan Rhodes's novel about a museum dedicated to suicide is by turns witty and gruesome review from The Guardian
- A mixture of the quaint, the sweet and the distinctly unpleasant, review from The Guardian by Colin Greenland
- review from The Independent
- "I don't feel like a natural" interview at The Skinny
- Five books that loomed large while I was writing Little Hands Clapping
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