Book - Story of a book thief - Zusak, Markus

Item Condition: Used - Very Good

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Author: Zusak, Markus

Brand: PICKWICK

Number of pages: 563

Details: It is 1939 in Nazi Germany. The whole country is holding its breath. Death has never had so much to do, and that's just the beginning. On the day of her little brother's funeral, Liesel Meminger picks up an object half-hidden in the snow, something unknown and comforting at the same time, a little book abandoned there, perhaps, or forgotten by the keepers of the tiny cemetery. Liesel doesn't think twice, it seems to her a sign, tangible proof of a memory for the future: she steals it and takes it with her. Thus begins the story of a little thief, Liesel's love affair with books and words, which for her become a talisman against the horror that surrounds her. Thanks to her adoptive father, she learns to read and soon becomes more expert and reckless: first she snatches books from the Nazi pyres because «the Germans liked to burn things. Shops, synagogues, houses and books», then he steals them from the mayor's wife's library, and intervenes whenever one is in danger. She saves them, as she would any creature. But times are getting more and more difficult. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their cellar, her world suddenly shrinks. And, at the same time, wider.

EAN: 9788868363321

Release date: 2016-06-21