Category: Fiction, Novels & Story Books
It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still.
By her brother''s graveside, Liesel''s life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger''s Handbook,
and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel''s love
affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi
book-burnings, the mayor''s wife''s library . . . wherever there are
books to be found.
But these are dangerous times, and when
Liesel''s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever
be the same again.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with
intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the
most enduring stories of our time.