Markus Zusak – författare

Boktjuven är ett mästerverk i ordets sanna bemärkelse. En makalös skildring av vänskap och mod under andra världskriget, berättad av Döden själv.Historien kretsar kring flickan Liesel, boktjuven, och hennes uppväxt i ett sargat Nazityskland. Krigets fasor och vardagens förtretligheter och glädjeämnen skildras utifrån hennes anteckningar.För Liesel väcks kärleken till orden genom hennes första stöld, Dödgrävarens handbok, som hon stjäl under sin lillebrors begravning. Böckerna öppnar nya världar för Liesel och snart börjar hon stjäla fler böcker från nazisternas bokbål, borgmästarens bibliotek, varhelst böcker står att finna. Hon delar böckerna med sina grannar när de sitter i skyddsrummen under bombningarna och med den jude som gömmer sig i familjens källare. Och till sist är det den bok hon själv skriver som bokstavligen räddar livet på henne.Översatt till mer än 40 språk och fortfarande på NY Times lista över mest sålda böcker. Bästsäljaren med klassikerstatus har nu även filmatiserats och går upp på biograferna i februari 2014.Boktjuven har alla förutsättning¬ar att bli en modern klassiker. Köp den, låna den eller stjäl den, men framför allt: läs den!SvD

''It''s just a small story, really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery ...''Narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Himmel Street:When nine-year-old Liesel arrives outside the boxlike house of her new foster parents, she refuses to get out of the car. Liesel has been separated from her parents - ''Kommunists'' - for ever, and at the burial of her little brother, she steals a gravedigger''s instruction manual which she can''t read. It is the beginning of her illustrious career.In the care of the Hubermans, Liesel befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. She also befriends the mayor''s wife, who hides from despair in her library. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor''s library, from the richer people of Molching. In time, the family hide a Jewish boxer, Max, who reads with Liesel in the basement.. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day in the life of Himmel street, the wail of the sirens comes too late ...A life-changing tale of the cruel twists of fate and the coincidences on which all our lives hinge, this is also a joyous look at the power of book to nourish the soul. Its uplifting ending will make all readers weep.

Random House presents the audiobook editon of Bridge of Clay, written and read by Markus Zusak.THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF***********************Here is a story told inside out and back to frontFive Dunbar brothers are living – fighting, loving, grieving – in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups. Today, the father who left them has just walked right back in. He has a surprising request: Who will build a bridge with him?It is Clay, a boy tormented by a long-buried secret, who accepts. But why is Clay so broken? And why must he fulfil this extraordinary challenge?Bridge of Clay is about a boy caught in a current, a boy intent on destroying everything he has in order to become everything he needs to be. Ahead of him lies the bridge, the vision that will save both his family and himself. It will be a miracle and nothing less.At once an existential riddle and a search for redemption, this tale of five brothers coming of age in a house with no rules brims with energy, joy and pathos. Written in Markus Zusak''s distinctive style, it is a tour de force from a master storyteller of the heart.Markus Zusak''s epic new novel BRIDGE OF CLAY is due out this October 2018*****************************''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, bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans

I say, ''Don''t lose your heart, Rube.'' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, ''I''m not tryin'' to lose it, Cam. I''m tryin'' to find it.''The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They''ve been fighting all their lives. Now there''s something more at stake than just winning.A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief.

Rube never loved any of them. He never cared about any of them. He just wanted each one because she was next, and why not take the next thing if it was better than the last? Needless to say, Rube and I aren''t too much alike when it comes to women.Cameron and Ruben have always been loyal brothers, but that loyalty is about to be tested to the limit when Cam falls for Octavia - Rube''s latest girlfriend. Will he get the girl? Will his love for her tear their brotherly bond apart? And would Octavia ever go for a guy like him anyway?