![]() ![]() ![]() Some war violence – not hugely graphic or explicit. The story is told from the viewpoint of a spirit-being who collects the souls of the dead. It becomes a term of endearment between characters. Leisel’s foster mother calls her a saumensch, which basically means pig. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, rose to national power in 1934 and began enforcing his policies of anti-Semitism and German aggression, which led to World War II. Update 2017: Check out this costume with book pages from The Book Thief as the skirt! You know you’re jealous…. The Book Thief is set in Germany during World War II and the Holocaust, where six million Jews were killed by the Nazis. And call me when you find those passages that demand to be read out loud. The characters and the emotions between them absolutely leapt straight off the page. It was published as a young adult novel, though everyone young and old alike can read and understand the novel. The language, the use of metaphors totally blew me away. The Book Thief is a historical novel by Markus Zusak written to show the ills that happened in Germany during the second world war. Then I made them listen to me read a passage of the book. I loved it so much that I called friends and family members, like listen. ![]() The Book Thief claims the top spot as my favorite book. Honestly, the above is kind of an understatement. This is the most unusual World War II story I’ve ever read. Liesel’s journey is both joyful and heart-rending, harsh and beautiful. As Liesel grows, over and over written words touch her life: a book stolen from the embers of a Nazi bonfire, from the mayor’s library, written to her by a man in hiding.ĭeath follows her story as a foreigner in her world, relaying the sequences of events with raw imagery and striking language, often creating the feel of a black-and-white picture with one color highlighted through it. Life in Liesel’s new home is a difficult adjustment, plagued with nightmares, but through them, she and her foster father form a bond through reading the book Liesel has stolen: a grave-digger’s manual. It is he, the collector of souls, who is the only witness to the girl’s first thievery, and he begins to follow her story. Death comes for the girl’s brother as she and her mother wait for a train to take them to a foster home where the children will be safe. When the protagonists mother is no longer able to. published 2005) Amazon | Barnes & Noble | GoodreadsĪ mysterious narrator gives an account of a young girl who has an unusual vice: she steals books. Although it is a work of historical fiction, the work is loosely based on the life of the authors mother. ![]()
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