It blew me away. -Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things 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 With heft and historical scope, Zusak creates a sensitively rendered tale of loss, grief, and guilt's manifestations. -Publishers Weekly, starred review Zusak pushes the parameters of the YA in this gorgeously written novel. -Booklist, starred review Praise for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD MORE THAN 16 MILLION COPIES SOLD Brilliant and hugely ambitious. --The New York Times Book Review Deserves a place on the shelf with the Diary of Anne Frank . . . Poised to become a classic. --USA Today Absorbing and searing. --Washington Post Zusak's novel is a major achievement. -People Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor. -Time ukryj opis