Lot # : 751 - The Book Thief ( Readers Circle) (Reprint) (Paperb

ack) by Markus Zusak Functional?: Yes Received: Yes UPC: 9780375842207 In Packaging?: Yes Assembly Required?: No Missing Parts?: No Damaged?: No About the Book Set during World War II in Germany Zusaks groundbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing encounters something she cant resist: books. Book Synopsis The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read . When Death has a story to tell you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country 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. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. 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 DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. Review Quotes Brilliant and hugely ambitious...Some will argue that a book so difficult and sad may not be appropriate for teenage readers...Adults will probably like it (this one did) but it's a great young-adult novel...It's the kind of book that can be life-changing because without ever denying the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order The Book Thief offers us a believable hard-won hope...The hope we see in Liesel is unassailable the kind you can hang on to in the midst of poverty and war and violence. Young readers need such alternatives to ideological rigidity and such explorations of how stories matter. And so come to think of it do adults. - New York Times May 14 2006 The Book Thief is unsettling and unsentimental yet ultimately poetic. Its grimness and tragedy run through the reader's mind like a black-and-white movie bereft of the colors of life. Zusak may not have lived under Nazi domination but The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night . It seems poised to become a classic. - USA Today Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five with grim darkly consoling humor. - Time Magazine Elegant philosophical and moving...Beautiful and important. - Kirkus Reviews Starred This hefty volume is an achievement...a challenging book in both length and subject... - Publisher's Weekly Starred One of the most highly anticipated young-adult books in years. - The Wall Street Journal Exquisitely written and memorably populated Zusak's poignant tribute to words survival and their curiously inevitable entwinement is a tour de force to be not just read but inhabited. - The Horn Book Magazine Starred An extraordinary narrative. - School Library Journal Starred The Book Thief will be appreciated for Mr. Zusak's audacity also on display in his earlier I Am the Messenger . It will be widely read and admired because it tells a story in which books become treasures. And because there's no arguing with a sentiment like that. - New York Times About The Author Markus Zusak is the internationally bestselling author of six novels including The Book Thief and most recently Bridge of Clay. His work is translated into more than forty languages and has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia. All of Zusak's books - including earlier titles The Underdog Fighting Ruben Wolfe When Dogs Cry (also titled Getting the Girl ) and The Messenger (or I am the Messenger) - have been awarded numerous honors around the world ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes voted on by booksellers. In 2013 The Book Thief was made into a major motion picture and in 2018 was voted one of America's all-time favorite books achieving the 14th position on the PBS Great American Read . Also in 2018 Bridge of Clay was selected as a best book of the year in publications ranging from Entertainment Weekly to the Wall Street Journal . Markus Zusak grew up in Sydney Australia and still lives there with his wife and two children.