This novel has brutality, but it also has beauty. The illustrations by Trudy White are a charming enhancement to the text. Collecting itself.” are just two examples. Pimples gathered in peer groups on his face.” and “She imagined the sound of a police siren throwing itself forward and reeling itself in. Zusak is skilful with his imagery and wordplay: “He was teenage tall and had a long neck.
Zusak’s characters have depth and appeal (even cranky Rosa): the banter between them often lifts the tension from serious moments with some quite black humour. While the Fuhrer and Mein Kampf play integral parts, illustrating the use of words for evil, the emphasis is on the struggle of the common man (and woman) to do the right thing in a dangerous environment. It was adapted into the 2013 feature film, The Book Thief. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 16 million copies. This much-awarded, best-selling novel looks at war from a different perspective: the effects it has on ordinary people trying to lead ordinary lives in an ordinary town. The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, and is his most popular book. With her best friend, Rudy Steiner, Liesel embarks on a career of thievery, starting with apples but graduating, eventually, to books from the Mayor’s library, although her first books are acquired in quite a different manner. Markus Zusaks novel The Book Thief tells the tale of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl living during World War II who. But the presence of this unassuming man also helps to expand Liesel’s experience of reading and of life. The anxiety level rises when Max Vandenburg, a Jew, comes to hide in the basement. Cranky Rosa keeps the family fed with her washing and ironing service while kind Hans paints when it is needed, plays the accordion and teaches Liesel to read, all on the background of deprivation, anxiety and fear that is wartime Germany. Liesel comes to 33 Himmel Strasse in Molchen to foster parents Rosa and Hans Hubermann, having just lost her younger brother, Werner to Death’s grasp. Death was decidedly overworked during the war, but he informs the reader that he saw young Liesel Meminger three times in those years before he finally took her much later. The setting is Nazi Germany just before the start of World War Two, through to 1943, and the story is narrated by Death. The Book Thief is the fifth novel by Australian author, Markus Zusak.
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