She is in a camp for nine months before Australia accepts her for entry. Proficient at the piano, Penny plays many concerts all over the Eastern Bloc, and Waldek decides that at the age of 18, she will play a concert in Vienna and never return.
Growing up in the Eastern Bloc, Waldek wants a bigger life for his daughter-he mentors her at the piano and reads her The Iliad and The Odyssey. Meanwhile, several years and decades prior, a young Penny sits at the piano with her father Waldek, who hits her hands with a twig every time she gets a note wrong. Clay leaves Carey with the book, and she says he has to come back for it. The two talk about the previous horseraces of the week and obsess over The Quarryman, a book about Michelangelo. Clay leaves school to go help his father, but before leaving Sydney meets up with their neighbour Carey Novac at the Surrounds, an old abandoned horse stables, as they do every Saturday night. All of the brothers refuse, except Clay-who betrays his family in this act. The novel starts with their father, referred to as 'the murderer', coming back into their lives requesting their help to build a bridge. Left to their own devices after their mother, Penny Dunbar, died of cancer, and their father, Michael Dunbar, ran out on them, the boys do their best to get along through life. The Dunbar boys live in a suburb of Sydney, in a house of mayhem and madness that only five young boys can cause. īridge of Clay was released in the United States and Australia on 9 October 2018, and in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2018. It revolves around five brothers coming to terms with the disappearance of their father. Bridge of Clay is a 2018 novel by Australian author Markus Zusak.
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