It is not only one of the best I've read this year, it is one of the best I've ever read.' So many great quotes, observations on humanity and images.I just didn't want it to end. What readers are saying about The Book Thief: SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIEġ939. 'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian USA TodayĭON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.'Life affirming, triumphant and tragic. The New York Timesĭeserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. The kind of book that can be life-changing.
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. 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. 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. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME.Historical Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Literature
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