New Releases by Markus Zusak

El autor de La ladrona de libros, que conquistó a más de 10.000.000 de lectores, vuelve con un memoir sincero, conmovedor y lleno de humor sobre su adopción de tres perros abandonados. «Divertido y encantador [...]. Una conmovedora historia sobre el vínculo que puede formarse entre un humano y un sabueso». - The Times Primero fue Reuben, lobo feroz con sierras en lugar de dientes; luego Archer, rubio, bello y letal; y finalmente llegó Frosty, una bola afable y rencorosa. Son los tres perros salvajes y leales que llegan a casa de los Zusak para poner patas arriba a la familia y, al mismo tiempo, completarla. Lo que sigue resulta inevitable: peleas callejeras, rifirrafes en el parque, daños corporales y psicológicos, tragedia y amor encarnizados, pero, sobre todo, la configuración de una constelación de afectos en torno a la necesidad humana (y animal) de pertenecer a un clan. Libro sorprendente, tierno y sincero sobre nuestro anhelo de establecer vínculos y de ponerlos a prueba y carta de amor a estos seres que llegan a nuestras vidas y las cambian para siempre, Tres perros salvajes es también una ventana al mundo interior de un escritor que ha conquistado a más de diez millones de lectores con sus novelas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION "Playful and poignant . . . will be enjoyed by readers of the best dog tales, such as The Art of Racing in the Rain, for its ability to evoke both the aggravation and deep love that dogs foster."--BookPage In this poignant, funny, and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world''s most beloved storytellers, the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Book Thief, tells of his family''s adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs--a charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible animals family. There''s a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us . . . It''s love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs--Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm? The answer can only be chaos: There are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that must be read to be believed. There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love--and the joy and recognition of family. Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth) is a tender, motley, and exquisitely written memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty--but also the visceral truth of the natural world--straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever.

WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION “Playful and poignant . . . will be enjoyed by readers of the best dog tales, such as The Art of Racing in the Rain, for its ability to evoke both the aggravation and deep love that dogs foster.”—BookPage In this poignant, funny, and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Book Thief, tells of his family’s adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs—a charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible animals family. There’s a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us . . . It’s love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs—Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm? The answer can only be chaos: There are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that must be read to be believed. There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love—and the joy and recognition of family. Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth) is a tender, motley, and exquisitely written memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty—but also the visceral truth of the natural world—straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever.

Novel bridge of clay.

Clay olhou para trás uma última vez antes de mergulhar - de emergir e voltar a mergulhar -rumo a uma ponte, a um passado, a um pai. E nadou nas águas douradas pela luz. Os cinco irmãos Dunbar vivem - lutando, amando e chorando a morte da mãe - no caos perfeito de uma casa sem adultos. O pai, que os abandonara, acaba de regressar. E tem um pedido surpreendente: algum deles aceita ajudá-lo a construir uma ponte? Clay, um rapaz atormentado por um segredo que esconde há muito, aceita. Mas porque está ele tão devastado? O que o leva a aceitar tão extraordinário desafio? Nada Menos Que um Milagre é a história de um rapaz apanhado numa espiral de sentimentos, um rapaz disposto a destruir tudo o que tem para se tornar na pessoa que precisa de ser. Diante dele, ergue-se a ponte, a visão que irá salvar a sua família - e salvá-lo a ele próprio. Será um milagre e nada menos que isso. Simultaneamente um enigma existencial e uma busca pela redenção, esta história de cinco irmãos em plena juventude, numa casa sem regras, transborda energia, alegria e emoções. Escrita no estilo inimitável de Markus Zusak, é um tour de force de um autor que conta histórias com o coração. Do autor do bestseller A RAPARIGA QUE ROUBAVA LIVROS, publicado em mais de 40 países e adaptado ao cinema. O lançamento desta sua nova obra, bestseller do New York Times, foi considerado um dos momentos editoriais mais importantes do ano!

The Wolfe family has fallen on hard times. Dad has been out of work for months, Mum works a night shift, Sarah gets drunk and Steve wants to leave his lunatic family. Cameron and Rube turn to illegal boxing for the money they need and the self-respect they want. Nothing will ever be the same.

Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. 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. 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. A miracle and nothing less. Yes, always for us there was a brother, and he was the one, the one of us amongst five of us, who took all of it on his shoulder. 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.

Más de diez años después de La ladrona de libros, el extraordinario best seller que conquistó a diez millones de lectores, Markus Zusak vuelve con una saga familiar inolvidable y arrolladora, inspirada en el arte y la cultura clasica. Los cinco hermanos Dunbar viven en un hogar sin adultos, cuidando los unos de los otros, luchando por sobrevivir en un mundo que los ha abandonado, hasta que su padre, el hombre que los dejó sin mirar atrás, vuelve a casa. ¿Por qué ha regresado? Matthew, cínico y poético, es quien lleva las riendas de la familia; Rory, siempre falta a clase; Henry, una máquina de hacer dinero, y el pequeño Tomy, coleccionista de mascotas que ha colonizado la casa con animales disfuncionales, como la mula Aquiles y Rosy, el border collie. Y luego está el silencioso Clay, perseguido por un suceso del que no se puede hablar. Pero la historia se remonta tiempo atrás: a ese abuelo cuya pasión por los antiguos griegos aún llena de color sus vidas, y a los padres, que se conocieron gracias a un piano extraviado. Clay tratará de revelar su trágico secreto y de construir un puente para salvar a su familia y salvarse también a sí mismo. Los elogios con los que The New York Times recibió La ladrona de libros , la primera gran novela de Zusak, siguen vigentes para El puente de Clay : «Los lectores jóvenes necesitan este tipo de alternativas a la rigidez ideológica, así como exploraciones sobre la importancia de las historias. Y, pensándolo bien, también los adultos.» La crítica ha dicho: «El tipo de libro que puede cambiarte la vida.» The New York Times « La ladrona de libros deslumbra por sus extraordinarios personajes, su capacidad de emocionar sin clichés y, ante todo, por su omnipresente reflexión sobre el valor de las palabras.» Ricard Ruiz Garzón, El Periódico de Catalunya «Elegante, filosófica, conmovedora, bella e importante.» Kirkus Reviews «Merece estar junto al Diario de Ana Frank en nuestra biblioteca.» USA Today «Una saga familiar tan emocionante como arrolladora. Sin duda, uno de los fenómenos editoriales de esta temporada.» Alter Ego «Con un modo de narrar poco común, ágil, no lineal, a veces caótico, Zusak consigue captar la atención del lector desde el principio.» Encarnación Herraiz, Aceprensa «Una narrativa extraordinaria.» SLJ «Zusak no endulza nada, pero logra que un tema aparentemente triste resulte tolerable tal como lo hizo Kurt Vonnegut en Matadero cinco: con un humor sombrío, reconfortante.» Time Magazine «Un gran logro. [...] Un libro desafiante en extensión y tema.» Publishers Weekly «Uno de los libros más esperados en años.» The Wall Street Journal «Markus Zusak supera las expectativas -ya de por sí altas dado el éxito de La ladrona de libros- y nos lleva a través del desafío que supone la pérdida y de la alegría de ser amado: nos enseña lo que significa vivir. Un libro para saborear, una lectura placentera, una voz que permanecerá viva: eso sí es saber contar historias.» Jackie Law, Bookmunch «Memorable.» Patricia Nicol, The Sunday Times «Vale la pena esperar cuando lo que llega es El puente de Clay, menudo festín de libro. Una historia ideal para perderse en las noches de otoño.» Charlotte Heathcote, The Sunday Express

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing." This is a signed edition with limited copies available. "One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into another family’s experience in the most profound way." —The Washington Post "Mystical and loaded with heart, it''s another gorgeous tearjerker from a rising master of them." —Entertainment Weekly “Devastating, demanding and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Dopo il successo planetario di Storia di una ladra di libri, Markus Zusak torna nelle librerie italiane con «The Wolfe Brothers», una travolgente, divertente, commovente storia di formazione articolata su tre romanzi. In A 15 anni sei troppo vecchio incontriamo per la prima volta i fratelli Cameron e Ruben Wolfe. I due sono tanto uniti quanto diversi, visto che mentre Ruben, il più vecchio, è forte, bello e brillante, Cameron è invece il più classico degli sfigati. I due ragazzi passano la maggior parte del loro tempo litigando con i genitori e i fratelli maggiori, combattendo tra di loro incontri di boxe «a una mano» (possiedono un solo paio di guantoni), e progettando piani semidelinquenziali, come derubare il dentista del quartiere, che falliscono miseramente. Ma quello che Cameron, come tutti gli adolescenti, desidera veramente, è incontrare una ragazza - una ragazza vera, non una di quelle delle riviste che guarda il fratello. Ma la domanda che lo attanaglia è: chi può innamorarsi di un perdente come me?

This anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author''s writing notebook. “Life-changing.” —The New York Times When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

1939, a náci Németország... A Halálnak sohasem volt még ennyi dolga, de ő már tudja, hogy ez még csak a kezdet. Mert a Halál bölcs és kíváncsi, szeretne mindent tudni az emberekről. Együtt is érez velük, ha csak ideje engedi. Ő meséli el ezt a történetet, amely egy német kislányról, Lieselről, a családjáról és a barátairól szól. Meg fanatikus németekről. És egy zsidó fiúról, akit a háború alatt egy pincében rejtegetnek. Liesel imád olvasni, és ha csak teheti, könyveket lop. De a legkedvesebb könyve az, amit a pincében rejtőzködő zsidó fiú ír neki... És egyszer csak hullani kezdenek a bombák... 2005-ben jelent meg az ausztrál író regénye, amely az egész világon bestseller lett, és számos díjat nyert el. 2013-ban mutatták be a belőle készült filmet Brian Percival rendezésében. Zusak könyve már most klasszikus: megható, elgondolkodtató, felejthetetlen...

Death tells the story of a young German girl, Liesel, whose book-stealing and story-telling talents during World War II help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Two award-winning modern classics from #1 New York Times bestselling author Markus Zusak! The Book Thief affirms the ability of books to feed the soul even in the bleakest of times in a story the New York Times described as “brilliant. . . . the kind of book that can be life-changing.” It is 1939. Nazi Germany. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. I Am the Messenger is a Printz Honor-winning novel and recipient of five starred reviews that tells the story of Ed Kennedy, an underage cabdriver without much of a future. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That''s when the first ace arrives in the mail. That''s when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who''s behind Ed''s mission? Discover the enormous talent that is Marcus Zusak in this extraordinary collection that showcases the intensity and heart inherent in his storytelling. DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Det er 1939. Nazityskland. Landet holder vejret. Døden har aldrig haft så travlt før, og det ser ikke ud til at blive bedre. Liesel Memingers liv ændres, da hun ved sin brors grav får fat på en lille ting, der ligger begravet i sneen. Det er "Håndbog for kirkegårdsgravere". Bogen er blevet glemt der, og det bliver Liesels første bogtyveri. Derefter begynder en kærlighedsaffære med bøger og ord, efterhånden som Liesel lærer at læse af sin plejefar. Snart stjæler hun bøger fra nazisternes bogbrændinger, fra borgmesterens kones bibliotek, fra hvor der overhovedet kan findes bøger. Men det er farlige tider. Da Liesels plejefamilie skjuler en jøde i kælderen, både åbner og lukker det verden for Liesel. "Bogtyven" er fortalt af Døden. Det er en historie om ordenes magt og bøgernes evne til at være sjælens føde. Markus Zusak har med sin fantastiske og intense fortælleevne givet os en bog, der vil blive stående længe. Markus Zusak (f. 1975) er en australsk forfatter. Han blev født i Tyskland og er især blevet kendt for den prisbelønnede ungdomsbog "Bogtyven", der skildrer en ung piges liv i en lille tysk by under krigen.

In the final novel of the acclaimed Wolfe Brothers Trilogy, Cameron Wolfe goes looking for love as he attempts to escape his brother''s shadow. Cameron Wolfe is a loser. He knows it. He''s the quiet one, not a soccer star like his brother Steve or a charming fighter with a new girl every week like his brother Rube. Cam would give anything to be near one of those girls, to love her and treat her right. He especially likes Rube''s latest, Octavia, with her brilliant ideas and bright green eyes. But what woman like that would want a loser like him? Maybe Octavia would, Cam discovers. Maybe he has talents and passions just waiting to be discovered. And those maybes are about to change everything: winning, loving, losing, the Wolfe brothers, and Cameron himself.

''You''re a bit of a lonely bastard, aren''t you?'' said Rube. ''Yeah,'' I answered. ''I guess I am.'' But Cameron Wolfe is hungry. He''s sick of being the filthy, torn, half-smiling, half-scowling underdog. He''s finally met a girl. He''s got words in his spirit. And now he''s out to prove that there''s nothing more beautiful than an underdog who''s willing to stand up. A tough, poetic street story by the internationally acclaimed author of The Book Thief.Join in the conversation about When Dogs Cry with #WolfeBooks

A trajetória de Liesel Meminger é contada por uma narradora mórbida, surpreendentemente simpática. Ao perceber que a pequena ladra de livros lhe escapa, a Morte afeiçoa-se à menina e rastreia suas pegadas de 1939 a 1943. Traços de uma sobrevivente: a mãe comunista, perseguida pelo nazismo, envia Liesel e o irmão para o subúrbio pobre de uma cidade alemã, onde um casal se dispõe a adotá-los por dinheiro. O garoto morre no trajeto e é enterrado por um coveiro que deixa cair um livro na neve. É o primeiro de uma série que a menina vai surrupiar ao longo dos anos. O único vínculo com a família é esta obra, que ela ainda não sabe ler. Assombrada por pesadelos, ela compensa o medo e a solidão das noites com a conivência do pai adotivo, um pintor de parede bonachão que lhe dá lições de leitura. Alfabetizada sob vistas grossas da madrasta, Liesel canaliza urgências para a literatura. Em tempos de livros incendiados, ela os furta, ou os lê na biblioteca do prefeito da cidade. A vida ao redor é a pseudo-realidade criada em torno do culto a Hitler na Segunda Guerra. Ela assiste à eufórica celebração do aniversário do Führer pela vizinhança. Teme a dona da loja da esquina, colaboradora do Terceiro Reich. Faz amizade com um garoto obrigado a integrar a Juventude Hitlerista. E ajuda o pai a esconder no porão um judeu que escreve livros artesanais para contar a sua parte naquela História. A Morte, perplexa diante da violência humana, dá um tom leve e divertido à narrativa deste duro confronto entre a infância perdida e a crueldade do mundo adulto, um sucesso absoluto - e raro - de crítica e público. Best-seller da Veja

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From the bestselling author of The Book Thief Before The Book Thief, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe Brothers: The Underdog, Fighting Rueben Wolfe, and Getting the Girl. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, and generally disappointing girls, their parents, and their much more motivated older siblings. They''re intensely loyal to each other, brothers at their best and at their very worst. But when Cameron falls head over heels for Ruben''s girlfriend, the strength of their bond is tested to its breaking point.We''re proud to present these novels together for the first time, and to be introducing American readers to The Underdog, never before published in the United States. Fans of The Book Thief won''t want to miss reading the novels that launched Markus Zusak''s stellar career.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Boxen ist Nebensache: Stolz, Respekt, Liebe und Freundschaft im Leben der Brüder Ruben und Cameron Wolfe in einem Aussenbezirk von Sidney, wo Aufschwung und Wohlstand nie richtig stattgefunden haben. Für ihre Familie, aber auch zu ihrer eigenen Selbstfindung, nehmen die beiden das Angebot eines "Boxpromotors" an, mit illegalen Boxkämpfen ein paar Dollar zu verdienen. Cameron, der schlechtere Boxer, bewundert seinen stets lächelnden Bruder, dem anscheinend alles gelingt - ohne zu bemerken, dass er selbst schon längst dessen Vorbild ist. Der Autor hat keinen abgedroschenen Kopfeinziehen-und-zuschlagen-Boxroman geschrieben, sondern eine höchst sensible Geschichte aus Sicht der beiden Heranwachsenden. Die knappe aber treffende Sprache und die Satzellipsen der brüderlichen Dialoge tragen viel dazu bei, dass man das Buch, einmal begonnen, nicht mehr aus der Hand geben möchte. Nicht zuletzt durch die ausgezeichnete Übersetzung vergessen die Lesenden oft, dass der Handlungsplatz der Geschichte im fernen Australien liegt und nicht hierzulande. Sehr empfehlenswert! Ab 14 Jahren, ****, Hanspeter Moser.