
Bridge of Clay
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Narrated by:
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Markus Zusak
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By:
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Markus Zusak
The unforgettable New York Times best-selling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary best seller The Book Thief, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing."
Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly and The Wall Street Journal.
"One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way." (The Washington Post)
"Mystical and loaded with heart, it's another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them." (Entertainment Weekly)
"Devastating, demanding and deeply moving." (Wall Street Journal)
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.
At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge - for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.
The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, Bridge of Clay is signature Zusak.
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Critic reviews
"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)
“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, best-selling 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)
Editorial Review
Open the door at 18 Archer Street As soon as I heard there was a new book on the way from Markus Zusak (it's been 13 years since The Book Thief), I added it to my wish list. Now that I’ve listened, I don’t think there’s any way I could prepare you for what to expect. Bridge of Clay is both an epic "ka-pow of boys and blood and beasts" and an intimate story that made me feel like Zusak, who also narrates the book, was reciting it to me personally as we road-tripped around Australia. I could go on about the Dunbar boys and the mule who wanders into the kitchen and the old, buried typewriter… but all you really need to know is that a master storyteller is back—and he’s brought tragedy and humor with him. —Heather S., Audible Editor
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He does jump around a lot - past and present but once you get into the book, it’s not too difficult to follow.
May be helpful to have book in hand
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The five bothers and who they were in childhood and as they grew was like a blossom opening, seeing how individual each one of them were. It is so good to see so many perspectives of a childhood, adolescence then adulthood, each coming from the same household and with shared tramas but each brother, so different in their choices in life and showing who they were thru it all. Of course, Clay, being sort of the main character, became someone that I really wanted to understand the most.
I cannot exactly say everything I loved about this story but I cried and cried during the last 1/4 of the book. I was fully invested with these fellas. I felt the ending was perfect!
I would recommend this story to folks who love a great family story of trials and tribulations and growing up. This is very rich and complex and satisfying when done!
Loved this story!!!
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Frustration and Resolution
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glorious
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Loved Itn
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Overwhelming sadness
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Zigzag story line
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Compelling, heartwrenching tale
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I still think about this book
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Loved it all
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