This novel has brutality, but it also has beauty. Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel-a young German girl whose book. The audience follows the story through Deaths eyes who is telling us the. The illustrations by Trudy White are a charming enhancement to the text. The Book Thief is a world-wind of beautiful and poetic passages narrated by Death. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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