Zusak has crafted a strapping story about love, family, courage, betrayal and guilt.a great novel, rich with meaning, and one that will endure.' Australian Book Review The deliberateness of his sentences, down to the punctuation is something to savour.a profoundly moving and engaging meditation on innocence and the pliable ties that bind family together in a quintessentially Australian setting.' Australian Books+Publishing Magazine Zusak's prose is distinct: astute, witty, exquisitely rhythmic, and utterly engrossing. 'An evocative, compassionate and exquisitely composed coming-of-age story about family, love, tragedy and forgiveness. 'Exquisitely written multigenerational family saga.With heft and historical scope, Zusak creates a sensitively rendered tale of loss, grief, and guilt's manifestations.' Publishers Weekly Markus Zusak makes his long-awaited return with a profoundly heartfelt and inventive novel about a family held together by stories, and a young life caught in the current: a boy in search of greatness, as a cure for a painful past.

He builds a bridge to transcend humanness. It is Clay, the quiet one, who will build a bridge for his family, for his past, for his sins. 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. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. 'An amazing talent in Australian literature' Sunday Telegraph From the author of the no.1 New York Times bestselling novel The Book Thief.

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