{"product_id":"9781760781620","title":"Bridge of Clay","description":"Author: Markus Zusak \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781760781620 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan Australia \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2019 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 592 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 194mm x 133mm x 38mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescripition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the no.1 New York Times bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \"An amazing talent in Australian literature\" \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and fight, and learn to reckon with the adult world. It is Clay, the quiet one, who will build a bridge; for his family, for his past, for his sins. He builds a bridge to transcend humanness. To survive. A miracle and nothing less. \u003cb\u003eWINNER INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e2019 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eBRIDGE OF CLAY \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"I am pleased to recommend...Markus Zusak's extraordinary novel \u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e, which I suspect I'll reread many times. It's a sprawling, challenging, and endlessly rewarding book. But it also has the raw and real and unironized emotion that courses through all of Zusak's books. I'm in awe of him.\" John Green, author of\u003ci\u003e The Fault in Our Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLooking for Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e \"Exquisitely written multigenerational family saga...With heft and historical scope, Zusak creates a sensitively rendered tale of loss, grief, and guilt's manifestations.\" \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \"An evocative, compassionate and exquisitely composed coming-of-age story about family, love, tragedy and forgiveness. Zusak's prose is distinct: astute, witty, exquisitely rhythmic, and utterly engrossing.\" \u003ci\u003eAustralian Books+Publishing Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \"Zusak is a writer of extraordinary empathy and he excels in his understanding of adolescent boys...in his portrayal of the gently traumatised Clay he has created a memorable character to savour... in \u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e, as earlier in \u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, Zusak has succeeded in creating a story so vibrant and so real that the reader feels enveloped by it.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e \"This vast novel is a feast of language and irony. It is such a compassionate book that it is hard not to fall a bit in love with it yourself. \u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e shares with Zusak's \u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e an underlying sense of the possibility of joy and human dignity even in dehumanising situations.\" \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \"A complex, big-hearted, multi-generational Australian epic, highly evocative and rich in idiom that sprawls across 580 pages, much in the manner of Colleen McCullough, or Tim Winton's \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine \"In 2005, the Australian writer dazzled readers and secured a perch on bestseller lists with \u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e ...this book too is a stunner. Devastating, demanding and deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay \u003c\/i\u003eunspools 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. In words that seem to ache with emotion, or perhaps, more aptly, with the suppression of it, Mr. Zusak moves us in and out of time. Grief and sacrifice lie at the heart of things, and we can feel it through Mr. Zusak's writing even before we understand the story's real contours.\" \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \"What truly stands out about \u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e is the intensity of the prose - the potency of the heartbreak. The depth of grief and loss is so palpable you can all but feel the blood, sweat, and tears that went into crafting the story.\" \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \"As with \u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, much of the appeal of the novel lies in Zusak's heartfelt love for his characters and for language. The book sings in short musical sentences like poetry, and words stop you in your tracks.\" \u003ci\u003eHerald Sun\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45327710912670,"sku":"ADS-9781760781620","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781760781620.jpg?v=1744611071","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781760781620","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}