The Book Thief
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When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath, and Death has never been busier. Amidst this, Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich, scratches out a meager existence by stealing. Her irresistible finds are books.
With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, Liesel learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids, and even with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.
Publication date
11 September 2007
Amazon rating
4.4/5
Print length
608
Language
English
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
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