The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing."
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way." —The Washington Post
"Mystical and loaded with heart, it's another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them." —Entertainment Weekly
“Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal The breathtaking story of
five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.
At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.
The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.
Markus Zusak is the international bestselling author of six novels, including
The Book Thief and most recently,
Bridge of Clay. His work is translated into more than forty languages, and has spent more than a decade on the
New York Times bestseller list, establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia.
All of Zusak’s books – including earlier titles,
The Underdog,
Fighting Ruben Wolfe,
When Dogs Cry (also titled
Getting the Girl), and
The Messenger (or
I am the Messenger) – have been awarded numerous honors around the world, ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes voted on by booksellers.
In 2013,
The Book Thief was made into a major motion picture, and in 2018 was voted one of America’s all-time favorite books, achieving the 14th position on the
PBS Great American Read. Also in 2018,
Bridge of Clay was selected as a best book of the year in publications ranging from
Entertainment Weekly to the
Wall Street Journal.
Markus Zusak grew up in Sydney, Australia, and still lives there with his wife and two children.
“This book is a stunner. Devastating, demanding and deeply moving,
Bridge of Clay unspools like a kind of magic act in reverse, with feats of narrative legerdemain concealed by misdirection that all make sense only when the elements of the trick are finally laid out.” —
Wall Street Journal"Markus Zusak crafts an unforgettable saga." —
US Weekly"In a complex narrative that leaps through time and place and across oceans, Zusak paints a vivid portrait of the brothers trying to regain their balance by keeping their family’s story alive." —
Time“It blew me away.” —Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of
A Spark of Light and
Small Great Things “A captivating book with a mighty, fearless heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is filled with characters to believe in and care about ... achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.” —M. L. Stedman, bestselling author of
The Light Between Oceans“If
The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show . . . [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.” —
The Guardian “Warm and heartfelt. . . . This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous, with flashes of wit and insight, and ultimately moving.”
Times of London"With heft and historical scope, Zusak creates a sensitively rendered tale of loss, grief, and guilt’s manifestations." —
Publishers Weekly, starred review
"[A] gorgeously written novel." —
Booklist, starred review
Praise for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
MORE THAN 16 MILLION COPIES SOLD
"Brilliant and hugely ambitious."
--The New York Times Book Review"Deserves a place on the shelf with the
Diary of Anne Frank . . . Poised to become a classic." --
USA Today"Absorbing and searing." --
Washington Post"Zusak's novel is a major achievement." –
People"Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in
Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor." –
Time
