Little Hands Clapping
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 First edition cover (with quote from Douglas Coupland) | |
| Author | Dan Rhodes |
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| Cover artist | David Roberts |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
Publication date | 4 February 2010 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print & eBook |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 1-84767-529-8 |
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.
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.
