The Book Thief

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584 pages

English language

Published Jan. 15, 2005 by Picador, Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-330-36426-3
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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.

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reviewed The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Boring and annoying

When using German phrases for style you'd better make sure to know exactly what they mean. Aside from that the book is not for me, I hate the pace and was surprisingly annoyed of death as a narrator.

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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.