Rough-and tumble, Australia setting, young men with a tough history trying to cope with a tough present.īut steel gets hardened in the flame, right? And these five boys, brothers, are strong. In scope, it reminds me more of his first novel, I AM THE MESSENGER. But the wait for this one, as it turns out, was worth it. It’s been a decade or so since his THE BOOK THIEF hit the shelves and made the world slow down a little as millions of people stopped to read and appreciate and think. The end of 2018 is fast approaching, so if you haven’t read anything all year that’s knocked you over, or if you want to read at least one more book with the potential to do that, or if you’re looking for something you can use to measure all those other books against, you should try Markus Zusak’s BRIDGE OF CLAY.
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