The Book Thief
About this book
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.
“The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times
Subjects
- art de conter
- books and reading
- books and reading, fiction
- book thefts
- children's fiction
- death
- death, fiction
- ficción
- fiction
- german history
- germany, history, fiction
- gestapo
- guerra mundial ii, 1939-1945
- guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- histoire
- historia
- historical fiction
- history
- jews
- jews, history, fiction
- jews rescue
- jews rescue (1939-1945 : world war) fast (ocolc)fst01710189
- judaism
- judios
- judíos
- juifs
- juvenile fiction
- libros y lectura
- literature
- livres et lecture
- mort
- muerte
- narración de cuentos
- nazi
- nazi germany
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- novela
- novela australiana
- nyt:paperback_books=2007-09-09
- nyt:young-adult-paperback-monthly=2022-09-04
- rescue
- romans, nouvelles
- sauvetage
- storytelling
- storytelling, fiction
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst01180924
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction
- world war ii