Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. This story is filled with sadness and heartache, yet time and again, one character or another exhibits such resiliency, courage, and integrity that it took my breath away and filled me with admiration and hope.DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
Through it all, Liesel survives physically and spiritually, and as I began to love her, I also came to love or hate the other strong characters, some of whom loved Liesel in their own way: her foster parents, her best friend, Rudy Steiner, and Max, the Jew whom she befriended. As the war progresses, the family and the town experience severe deprivation and scarcity of food, paranoia, fear of Hitler’s henchmen, and the heartaches of loved ones going off to war or becoming victims of the Allied bombing. For months they hide a Jew who is trying to escape Germany and let him live in their basement. The Hubermanns are not sympathetic to Hitler. Liesel has stolen a book that someone dropped at her brother’s burial, and this begins her fascination with books and words and their many and complex levels of meaning. The story itself-told from Death’s unique perspective-follows 9-year-old Liesel Meminger, the book thief, from the day of her baby brother’s death as her mother is taking them to be cared for by foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann at the beginning of WWII. What a strangely beautiful, wildly imaginative, and profoundly moving book.
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