• Bridge of Clay

  • By: Markus Zusak
  • Narrated by: Markus Zusak
  • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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Bridge of Clay

By: Markus Zusak
Narrated by: Markus Zusak
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Publisher's summary

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak.

From the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning, best-selling author of The Book Thief, here is a story told backwards and inside out.

The five Dunbar brothers are living - fighting, dreaming, loving - in the perfect squalor of a house without grownups. Today, the father who abandoned them is about to walk back in.

But why has he returned, and who have the boys become since he left?

At the helm is Matthew, cynical, poetic; Rory, forever truanting; Henry, the money-spinner; and young Tommy, the pet collector who has colonised the house with dysfunctional pets, including Achilles the mule and Rosy the border collie.

And then there’s Clay, the quiet one, his whole young life haunted by an unspeakable act.

From the tale of their grandfather, whose passion for the ancient Greeks still colours their lives, to the mother and father who met over a mislaid piano, to the present day, where five sons dwell in a house with no rules, Bridge of Clay is an epic portrait of a ramshackle family and the unburying of one boy’s tragic secret.

©2018 Markus Zusak (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks

Critic reviews

Praise for The Book Thief: "Brilliant and hugely ambitious." (New York Times)

"A novel of breathtaking scope." (The Guardian)

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David - Michelangelo

It took me a while to get excited about the book. I struggle in the beginning to keep track of the different time periods even figuring out the character was a mystery. My view of this changed completely when I finished the book it is as if Zusak wrote a book the way a artist would sculpt something out of stone or marble. There where abstract glimpses into a masterpiece that would only be revealed towards the end.

If you love art you will love every minute of this masterpiece.

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And so it was a beautiful story...

This is a story that starts before the beginning and pulls you into the lives of the 5 Dunbar Boys, by the end you will feel like you know each one of them personally. The murderer, The Mule, the old TW and the boy, the beautiful boy, Clay Dunbar. Praise for Markus Zusak, what an accomplishment. I devoured every poetic word you have written. This is a masterpiece, I can highly recommend and will definitely be reading again.

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Just brilliant

One of those books that leaves you with a hang over. I laughed out loud and I’m still mopping up the tears.

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Blasphemy

I could not listen to all the blasphemy. It spoils the story. Really sorry, was really looking forward to the book

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