Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy.
“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
It is 1939 Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.
By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger’s Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
Read Alikes for The Book Thief: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne; The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah; The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel; Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys; Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy.
“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
It is 1939 Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.
By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger’s Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
Read Alikes for The Book Thief: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne; The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah; The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel; Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys; Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
ISBN 978-0-375-84220-7
Markus Zusak
2005
Winner of National Jewish Book Award and Sydney Taylor Book Award
