Rank 94 of 100
The Book Thief
Synopsis
Death narrates the years a girl named Liesel spends in a town outside Munich, stealing books and reading them aloud in a basement where a young Jewish man is hidden. Zusak’s narrator is tired of war and unexpectedly tender about the people who use words to stay human inside it.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Historical
- Audience
- Young adult
- Era
- Since 2000
- Movement
- Contemporary
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 552 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction