Little Hands Clapping
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Author(s)Dan Rhodes
PublisherCanongate UK
ISBN / ASIN1847675298
ISBN-139781847675293
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,633,593
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives the Old Man. Caretaker of the museum by day, by night he enjoys the sound of silence, broken by the occasional crunch of a spider between his blackened teeth. Little Hands Clapping brings together the Old Man with the respectable Doctor Ernst Frohlicher, his greedy dog Hans and a cast of grotesque and hilarious townsfolk, all of whose lives are thrown together as the town uncovers a crime so outrageous that it will shock the world. From its sinister opening to its explosive denouement, Little Hands Clapping blends lavishly entertaining storytelling with Rhodes's macabre imagination, entrancing originality and magical touch.