From the author of the no.1 New York Times bestselling novel The Book Thief.<br/><br/>''''An amazing talent in Australian literature'''' Sunday Telegraph<br/><br/>Let me tell you about our brother.<br/>The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay.<br/>Everything happened to him.<br/>We were all of us changed through him.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>It is Clay, the quiet one, who will build a bridge; for his family, for his past, for his sins. He builds a bridge to transcend humanness. To survive.<br/><br/>A miracle and nothing less.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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<br/>