The Book Thief

THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT BOOK OF 2006-NOW IN PAPERBACK

"Deserves a place on the same shelf with 'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank...Poised to become a classic."-USA Today

"A major achievement."-People

"Zusack doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in 'Slaughterhouse Five': with grim, darkly consoling humor."-Time

"Absorbing and searing."-The Washington Post

A "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER-A "USA TODAY BESTSELLER-WINNER OF THE BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE-WINNER OF THE MICHAEL L. PRINTZ HONOR BOOK AWARD-WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD-AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK-A QUILL AWARD NOMINEE-A "PUBLISHERS WEEKLY" BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR-A "KIRKUS REVIEWS" EDITOR'S CHOICE-A "HORN BOOK" FANFARE-A "SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL" BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR-A "BOOKLIST" BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR-A "BULLETIN" BLUE RIBBON BOOK

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is "The Grave Digger's Handbook", left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up and cloosed down.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with itensity, award-winning author Markus Zusack has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

Cinema / Drama / Entretenimento / Ficção / História / Infantojuvenil / Jovem adulto / Línguas Estrangeiras / Literatura Estrangeira