Bridge of Clay: The redemptive, joyous bestseller by the author of THE BOOK THIEF

by Markus Zusak

THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF

'If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.' Guardian

'This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous.' Times


Here is a story told inside out and back to front

Five Dunbar brothers are living – fighting, loving, grieving – in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups. Today, the father who left them has just walked right back in.
He has a surprising request: Who will build a bridge with him?

It is Clay, a boy tormented by a long-buried secret, who accepts. But why is Clay so broken? And why must he fulfil this extraordinary challenge?

Bridge of Clay is about a boy caught in a current, a boy intent on destroying everything he has in order to become everything he needs to be. Ahead of him lies the bridge, the vision that will save both his family and himself.

It will be a miracle and nothing less.

At once an existential riddle and a search for redemption, this tale of five brothers coming of age in a house with no rules brims with energy, joy and pathos. Written in Markus Zusak's distinctive style, it is a tour de force from a master storyteller of the heart.

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'Bridge of Clay is one of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time' Washington Post


'This book blew me away' JODI PICOULT

• ISBN10: 0857525956
• ISBN13: 9780857525956
• Publish Date: 11 October 2018 (first published 9 October 2018)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Imprint: Doubleday
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 592
• Language: English

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

I was never a fan of The Book Thief so when Bridge of Clay was assigned as the next book for book club, I wasn’t looking forward to it. It has taken Markus Zusak thirteen years to follow up The Book Thief and I personally feel like this was a little haphazard. I was not a fan of the written style at all and words were used so frequently it begins to be grating. The word “murderer” was used frequently it lost all meaning to me. Then when finding out the murderers name, his full name got used every few lines when others didn’t. I don’t understand why Zusak felt that we needed to be constantly reminded of this one character full name. Also I feel like this book encapsulated everything I hate about teenage boys.