The Book Thief author to release new novel more than 10 years in the making

Markus Zusak.
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Markus Zusak has finally finished his long-anticipated young adult novel Bridge of Clay. The book will be published by Random House in October, The New York Times reported.

Zusak has been working on this project since his best-seller, The Book Thief, hit bookshelves in 2005. "When I started writing [Bridge of Clay], and this was 12 or 13 years ago, I just couldn't quite feel that it was right, and so I just kept trying and trying and trying and then I'd get halfway through and I couldn't keep going because I thought: 'This isn't it,'” Zusak told the Times.

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