"The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there."

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A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do

— Niall Williams