"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
