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Book SynopsisRandom House presents the audiobook edition of Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak.
Loved THE BOOK THIEF? take a look at this!
Ten years in the making the epic new novel from the acclaimed, prize-winning, bestselling author of THE BOOK THIEF
Here is a story told inside out and back to front:
The five Dunbar brothers are living – fighting, dreaming, loving – in the perfect squalor of a house without grownups. Today, the father who walked out on them long ago is about to walk right back in.
But why has he returned, and who have the boys become in the meantime?
At the helm is Matthew, cynical, poetic; Rory, forever truanting; Henry, the money-spinner; and Tommy, the pet collector who has populated the house with dysfunctional pets, including Achilles the mule and Rosy the border collie.
And then there’s Clay, the quiet one, his whole young life haunted by an unspeakable act.
From a grandfather, whose passion for the ancient Greeks still colours their lives, to a mother and father fell in love over a mislaid piano, to a present day, where five sons dwell in a house with no rules, BRIDGE OF CLAY is an epic portrait of how a ramshackle family, held together by stories and by love, come to unbury one boy’s tragic secret.
Markus Zusak's epic new novel BRIDGE OF CLAY is due out this October 2018
Trade Review[Zusak] flings his readers straight into the deep end of his new vast, teeming novel . . .
Warm and heartfelt . . . This is a tale of love, art and redemption;
rowdy and joyous, with flashes of wit and insight, and ultimately moving. -- Kate Saunders * Times *
If
The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its]
brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively
full of life. -- Alfred Hickling * Guardian *
The wait is over. * New York Times *
This vast novel is
a feast of language and irony. There is sly wit on every page... it is hard not to fall a bit in love with it. -- Michael McGirr * Sydney Morning Herald *
Bridge of Clay has been more than a decade in the making, and it shows: The characters are clearly loved, and the artistry of language will leave you gasping at times. * New York Times *
