Author: Zusak, Markus; White, Trudy (illustrator).
Title: The Book Thief.
Description: Sydney Picador / Pan Macmillan, 2008. Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear, cover photo differs from stock photo. 584 pp. This thought-provoking novel by an Australian author is set in Nazi Germany in 1939. Liesel picks up a book titled "The Gravedigger's Handbook", left at her brother's graveside by accident. It is her first act of book thievery. Liesel's love affair with books and words has begun. Soon, she is taking books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, and any place that books are to be found. Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, and her world is both opened up and closed down. ISBN: 9780330364263

Keywords: general fiction, australian fiction, military, world war 2 (ww2), death, books, jews, europe, germany 9780330364263


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