584 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2005 by Picador, Alfred A. Knopf.
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Subjects
- Books and reading -- Fiction.
- Storytelling -- Fiction.
- Death -- Fiction.
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction.
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.