![]() ![]() YDSTIE: What made you decide to have Death himself, or Death itself, narrate this story? So in a way, she's stealing the words back, and she's rewriting her own beautiful story through this ugly world that surrounds her. He was destroying people with words, and she steals books from book burnings and all types of other places, and she shares these stories with the young Jewish man hiding in her basement, and she reads them in the bomb shelters to calm people down. MARKUS ZUSAK (Author, The Book Thief): She steals books at a time when people were captivated by Adolph Hitler, and in a way she's stealing words back. ![]() As war comes closer, she struggles to learn to read and to write down the stories of those around her. ![]() The main character, Liesel Meminger, a young, illiterate German girl, moves in with a foster family in Nazi Germany. ![]() The work by Australian author Markus Zusak is aimed at a teenage audience, but it addresses themes like death, memory and language. In a new novel called The Book Thief, the young heroine steals books in order to rebuild her life, one from a Nazi bonfire, another a gravedigger's manual, another from the town mayor's personal library. ![]()
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