The Book Thief

Author(s): Markus Zusak

Location(s): Munich, Sydney

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): WW2

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Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street in Molching, a fictional village just outside non-ficitonal Munich, during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during the funeral for her brother, she manages to steal a macabre book: it is, in fact, a gravediggers’ instruction manual. This is the first of many books which will pass through her hands as the carnage of the Second World War begins to hungrily claim lives. Both Liesel and her fellow inhabitants of Himmel Street will find themselves changed by both words on the printed page and the horrendous events happening around them.

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This is a wonderful book, probably my favourite of all time. I took it to Australia as a holiday read, and was furtively wiping tears from my eyes (being a bloke!)throughout the last hundred...

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Author: Vasha

A very memorable, vividly written depiction of the experiences of one German girl during World War II– many characters to care about. The one thing I didn’t like about it was the framing device of having it narrated by...

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Tissues Required

A very different sort of book and very readable. The relationships are intense in such terrible times. The contrast of those that have and those that don’t are haunting. This book will stay with you and I wept, lots....

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