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The Book Thief

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Markus Zusak・・Ended

Updated: September 11, 2007

Content length: 608 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A NEW YORK TIMES READER TOP 100 PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

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The Book Thief redefines how we tell stories of war—not with shouting, but with a whisper from the most unexpected narrator: Death. “I am haunted by humans,” he admits, and as he follows Liesel Meminger, a young girl in 1930s Germany, you’ll be haunted too—by her courage, her kindness, and the way words become a lifeline in a world that wants to silence them.

Liesel doesn’t fit the “hero” mold: she’s a scrawny kid who steals books from bonfires and wealthy libraries, not for fame, but because in a Nazi regime that burns ideas, books are acts of rebellion. With her foster father Hans—who plays the accordion and risks his life to help a Jewish man—and her sharp-tongued foster mother Rosa, she turns a cold basement into a sanctuary: reading to neighbors during air raids, sharing stories with Max, a Jewish refugee hiding in their home, and learning that even small acts of goodness (a slice of bread, a stolen book, a kind word) can fight hatred.