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Bridge of Clay
- Narrated by: Markus Zusak
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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Bridge of Clay
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Publisher's Summary
From the author of the number one New York Times best-selling novel The Book Thief.
Let me tell you about our brother.
The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay.
Everything happened to him.
We were all of us changed through him.
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's building a bridge to transcend humanness. To survive.
A miracle and nothing less.
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.
Critic Reviews
"An amazing talent in Australian literature." (Sunday Telegraph)
"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)
"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. 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)
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- Hamish B.
- 16-12-2018
Outstanding
A totally different style of writing to what I am used to, but presented with love and passion by the author, makes a great read.
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- Philip
- 10-11-2019
To offset my husband’s terrible review
My husband wrote a terrible review of this book. Everything he hated about it I loved. Especially I loved the rhythmic sentence structures - which were often more like a piece of art and a subtle poem rather than prose. The author read this book himself - his matter of fact, calm rendition exaggerated the beauty of the words. The story was passionate and loving and one of family love, loss and sadness. Highly recommended. P.S. from the "husband". The only problem with this review is it completely overwrote the one which I wrote and I still stick by my poor review! The worm turns?
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- Mary-Lou O'Brien
- 21-02-2019
Struggled to finish
Whilst I thought many times to give up I remained hopeful that it would deliver in the end all because I loved The Book Thief, so I stuck it out. It was way too long, used too many metaphors and I would have loved it to start almost at the building of the bridge as there was too much background provided and I remained bored and so disengaged that it was a relief to finish. The highlight was the audio by Markus particularly at the very end when you can sense his emotion and it was at that point I I first felt any kind of connection to the story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-03-2019
Amazing Experience
I am so pleased that I chose to listen to this novel being narrated by the author . Such an enriching experience. Thank you Markus Zusak.
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- Shan W
- 22-03-2019
Heart rending and joy filling
In spite of some difficulty I had following the storyline because of the way it was structured, I loved this book. A heart rending, but joy filled story of one family's struggle to deal with death and its consequences, of the interrelationships in a family and the daily struggles and good times they entail. A tribute to life and both the sacredness of connection and the sacred sites that the author references through the book. It's given me food for thought in terms of my and my family's own sacred sites that we've shared throughout our lives and the fact that even though some of them no longer exist in the physical realm, they live on in our heart.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-05-2019
PURE POETRY
From start to finish this remarkable tale was written and spoken as if it was one long beautiful piece of troubled poetry.🖤
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- Anonymous User
- 16-05-2019
Loved it
Flowed effortlessly from past to present. Great characters. Kept me gripped from beginning to end.
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- MargieJ
- 28-06-2022
Amazing book
A beautiful poignant story. So wonderful this book is read by the author. What a treat. I loved it.
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- Zydeco
- 19-02-2023
Awful narration - couldn’t finish it.
I did try - I went back to it after a couple of months & had another go but I could not get through it. The storyline & writing were interesting but omg the narration was SO boring I couldn’t finish. He tries so hard for a laid-back, laconic style of narration that it becomes monotonous and colourless and I just couldn’t sustain interest. Sorry, Marcus, maybe I’ll try reading it the old-fashioned way.
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- Tesseclair
- 22-12-2018
What a great story.
I found the book hard to get into at first. I couldn’t find the rhythm of the story nor the narration, but once I did, what a beautiful story it was. Brilliant.
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