Description
The Book Thief, published in 2005, is a historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak. The novel became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 16 million copies. It was nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. This 10th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook.
The novel takes its reader to the journey of a girl's life during the Nazi era and Death has a story to tell, you listen.
It is 1939, Nazi Germany is holding its breath. Death has never been busier and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books. 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 accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read. She shares her stolen books with her neighbors as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement during bombing raids. Soon she 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 Jewish man 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, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
"The Kind of book that can be life-changing."--The New York Times
"Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank."--USA Today
It received Commonwealth Writers' Prize(2006) for Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific), Daniel Elliott Peace Award (2006), National Jewish Book Award (2006) for Children's Young Adult Literature, Publishers Weekly (2006) Best Children's Book of the Year, Sydney Taylor Book Award (2007) for the best in Jewish Children's and YA literature, Michael L. Printz Honor Book (2007). The Printz award is given to the best book for teens, based only on the quality of the writing. It also achieved 14th position on the PBS Great American Read (2018).
Adaptation
It was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2013. It was directed by Brian Percival. Michael Petroni wrote the script.most of the movie was filmed in Görlitz, Germany.
About the Author
Mark Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian-German writer who is the internationally bestselling author of six novels, including The Book Thief, The Messenger (US title: I Am the Messenger), and most recently, Bridg of Clay. He has been on the New York Times bestseller list for almost more than a decade. All of Zusak's books-including earlier mentioned titles, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, When Dogs Cry (also titled Getting the Girl)-have been awarded numerous honors around the world, ranging from literary prize to readers choice to prizes voted on by booksellers.
Markus Zusak won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2014 from the American Library Association (ALA), which annually recognizes an author for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. In 2006, he was also the recipient of the Sydney Morning Herald's Young Australian Novelist of the Year Award.
He is a writer of German origin who was born and brought up in Sydney, Australia and still lives there with his wife and two children.
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Age Range: 12 and up (Grade Level- 7 and up)
Rating: 4.6/5
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Reader
Publishing Date: 2005 (Reprint edition September 11, 2007)
Edition Language: English, German
Genre: Teen & Young Adult Holocaust Historical Fiction, Children's Orphans & Foster Homes Book,
ISBN-10: 0375842209
ISBN-13: 978-0375842207
Pages: 608
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