Why I loved The Book Theif by Markus Zusak, and why you should read it too!!

 

The Book Thief 

By Markus Zusak

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 This is such a carefully crafted book. Liesel and her brother are meant to be going to live with another family, but tradgey strikes before they gets there. Liesel arrives at her new home and while her foster father is lovely, her foster mother is not. The father makes her a classroom in the basement and she falls in love with reading. But when the Nazis start buring books Liesel starts stealing them. And when a Jewish friend needs a safe place, the foster family risk everything to hide him a great personal risk to thereselves.

This historical backdrop of this story was alive with realism, and the author cleverly explores how a population can be seduced by speaches and false promises.

This is a harrowing story and it is one that will stay with me for a very long time.

MARKUS ZUSAK is the author of the acclaimed, prize-winning and bestselling novel The Book Thief, published worldwide in 2007. His new literary novel BRIDGE OF CLAY is now available. Markus Zusak lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two children.

 

I bought my copy of this book from Waterstones, but you can also find it in all good bookshops.