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Cover artist
  
David Roberts

Publication date
  
4 February 2010

Pages
  
320

Originally published
  
4 February 2010

Page count
  
320

Country
  
United Kingdom

3.8/5
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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print & eBook

ISBN
  
1-84767-529-8

Author
  
Dan Rhodes

Publisher
  
Canongate Books

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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.

Contents

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 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
  • Almost every page of Little Hands Clapping has superb quirks or asides which will have the reader laughing. A sublime, brilliant novel, The Scotsman
  • It should please cynical idealists and idealistic cynics alike., Financial Times
  • References

    Little Hands Clapping Wikipedia