Little Hands Clapping

Little Hands Clapping

First edition cover
(with quote from Douglas Coupland)
Author Dan Rhodes
Cover artist David Roberts
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Canongate Books
Publication date
4 February 2010
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.

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.

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