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The Book Thief
MARKUS ZUSAK
2005
INTRODUCTION
Markus Zusak's novel The Book Thief features a unique narrator telling the tale of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl who finds her life during World War II increasingly tied to books—many of which, as the title suggests, are stolen. Seemingly abandoned by her parents and witness to her younger brother's death by illness, Liesel is sent to live with a foster family in a small town outside Munich. There, she begins a relationship with books that challenges and sustains her during the darkest moments of war—and, ultimately, even saves her life.
Zusak was already a successful children's book author before The Book Thief, with four previously published novels. One of these, I Am the Messenger (originally published in Australia as The Messenger, 2002), was even chosen as Book of the Year by the Children's Book Council of Australia. However, The Book Thief was a special work for the author: The youngest child of German and Austrian parents who later settled in Australia, Zusak grew up hearing tales of wartime Germany. He wanted to show readers that not all Germans were hateful and brutal. As Zusak states in an interview featured in the reader's guide of the paperback edition of the novel, I wanted them to see people who were unwilling to fly the Nazi flag, and boys and girls who thought the Hitler Youth was boring and ridiculous.
Published first in Australia in 2005, The Book Thief became one