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A review by jenibo
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
4.0
So, the wonderful MZ hasn't lost it, as far as I'm concerned, but he nearly did in the first 50 pages.
Please, persist through them, because Zuzak is still uniquely Australian, and still as ever able to transform the everyday into the sacred, routine into legend.
But the first 50 pages or so are a real challenge, and I don't know why he had to do that - they have a fair amount of self conscious artfulness in them, IMHO, and I think the book would be better if he had rewritten the beginning again, when he got to the end.
But the characters are wonderful and steal our hearts, as usual, and the story is secondary but satisfying, and this is one thing that makes it less wonderful than its predecessor, The Book Thief, I think. It's not up there with that Masterpiece, I don't think, but you can hardly blame an author for only having one book of that greatness in him, and perhaps it's making me unjustly hard on him.
Another beautiful book from a wonderful author.
Please, persist through them, because Zuzak is still uniquely Australian, and still as ever able to transform the everyday into the sacred, routine into legend.
But the first 50 pages or so are a real challenge, and I don't know why he had to do that - they have a fair amount of self conscious artfulness in them, IMHO, and I think the book would be better if he had rewritten the beginning again, when he got to the end.
But the characters are wonderful and steal our hearts, as usual, and the story is secondary but satisfying, and this is one thing that makes it less wonderful than its predecessor, The Book Thief, I think. It's not up there with that Masterpiece, I don't think, but you can hardly blame an author for only having one book of that greatness in him, and perhaps it's making me unjustly hard on him.
Another beautiful book from a wonderful author.