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This reads as a meditation on memory, avoidance, and the direction of a life. It can be taken to mean that much of living is either holding on or letting go, and that people often move through their days without knowing which impulse is leading them. It lands in moments of reflection, after loss or change, when that uncertainty feels especially sharp.
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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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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