The Book Thief

Hardcover, 592 pages

English language

Published July 30, 2007 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-61146-6
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OCLC Number:
718526275

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4 stars (60 reviews)

HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

  1. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.

Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH.

It's a small story, about: a girl, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery.

ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD KNOW - DEATH WILL VISIT THE BOOK THIEF THREE TIMES.

--front flap

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Review of 'The Book Thief' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

4.25 The unique style of the book's narrator (Death, who clearly has a somewhat Anglo-Saxon relationship to the German language) sets it apart from other wartime stories of ordinary people. It works very well 98% of the time and the few examples where the German eluded the author don't detract much from the charm. Though the book sometimes veers into clichés it manages to keep clear most of the time. The people depicted are mostly decent, though they mostly still let the Holocaust happen without getting too uncomfortable about it.

The one thing that brings the book down from a perfect read is that the promised book-thievery is quite tame in the end and none of the stolen books, except for the first (a gravedigger's handbook) manage to stick in the reader's mind. The lead-up to the inevitable end, which Death spoils repeatedly from the beginning also falls considerably in …

Review of 'The Book Thief' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

What an unusual book:
- It tells the story of a German family in World War II (which at one point houses a Jew in their basement). This is unusual because the majority of fiction I encountered on WWII so far focused on the Jewish experience.
- Its narrative is very unconventional. It is narrated by Death himself (or as I as a Sandman-fan like to think, herself).
- The narrative is not exactly chronological.
- It has A LOT of chapters, some of which are incredibly short.
- It uses idiosyncratic language and makes heavy use of odd metaphors.
- It uses interesting stylistic methods.
- It's a book about Germany written by an Australian author in English with Bavarian embellishments.

So what did I like about the book?
- It is an incredibly easy read. A book of over 500 pages seemed a bit daunting, especially in the …

Review of 'The Book Thief' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Yet another YA book, that is reportedly hugely popular among the teenagers. But this one works well for adults too. We found the use of Death as a narrator intriguing and effective. He was the ultimate outsider, but intimately privy to the best, and worst, of humanity. Horribly overworked and yet striving to be tender with his most innocent charges. The characters were well-drawn, and surprisingly sympathetic and we found ourselves caring about them.

Review of 'The Book Thief' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I'm normally bound to genres or working my way through classics, though this was a book for a local Meetup reading group that I never got around to joining.

It's one of the most amazing books I've ever read and I'd probably go as far as saying it's now my favourite book. Completely floored me, and I recommend it to everybody.

If you're a genre reader and wonder if there's something more out there than these templated novels and series that many of us love, then give this book a try. I doubt you'll regret it.

Review of 'The Book Thief' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

"I am haunted by humans" ....Death confesses

Just a few words, to tell you about this superb book, “The book thief”. It is the story of a girl in a small town in Germany during the WWII. Death himself narrates this creative and unusual story.

I try to find the most appropriate words to describe this book. There are moments that it is funny, else it is sad and painful. Sometimes, I found it hard to go on. I had to stop reading in order to absorb all this pain, the anger, the hate, the despair.

It is also a book about love and friendship. Mostly it is a book about words and their power. Their power over people.

The author understands very well this power; he likes to play with the words and the language. The use of language, especially in the short story of Max Vandenburg, “The Word …

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