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This reads as a wry, slightly dark reflection on being remembered. It suggests that a full life leaves language behind, stories, speech, memory, and that wanting a voice at the end means wanting something to have been truly lived, not merely endured. It lands when someone is trying to put meaning into a loss or into the wish to be remembered well.
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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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Funeral: more sayings
- “A short poem from my new book, The Lost Journal of my Second Trip to Pergatory, Thorny CrownsOf course the go…”Michelle Hartman
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More Death quotes
- “It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of…”Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.”Isabel Allende
- “The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture…”N. T. Wright
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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