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About Markus Zusak
Australian-German writer
Markus Zusak is an Australian-German writer best known for the novels The Book Thief and The Messenger. His work has reached a wide international readership, and he won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2014. He is known above all for those two novels, which became international bestsellers. His writing is associated with fiction that has travelled well beyond his home audience.
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- “As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow…”Markus Zusak
- “Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I…”Markus Zusak
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- “You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.”Andrew Lincoln
- “You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets th…”Louis Gossett
- “Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and…”Wilkie Collins
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- “The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.”Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “I was never able to conquer the distance between persons. An animal is fixed to its here-and-now by the sense…”Stanisław Lem
- “My reasons to liveWere my reasons to dieBut at least they were mineNow I've freedom unboundCut the laces of l…”Emilie Autumn
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Books by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
2013
I Am the Messenger
2009
Bridge of Clay
2018
Getting the Girl
2013
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
2002