584 pages
English language
Published Jan. 15, 2005 by Picador, Alfred A. Knopf.
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
5 stars
(2 reviews)
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Subjects
- Books and reading -- Fiction.
- Storytelling -- Fiction.
- Death -- Fiction.
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction.
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.