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My take on this is that at home, I have hundreds of books on my shelf.

Do you think that there is a clear distinction between YA or A fiction? In America they are marketing The Book Thief as a young adult book. Knowing that we are not here forever makes us appreciate things, and it’s often those fleeting kindnesses and loves that define us in the end. I guess the old saying is true that death is what makes life worthwhile. I concentrated mostly on the idea that humans have great beauty and great “ugly” (as Death puts it) in them, and we all struggle to steer ourselves, hopefully, towards the beauty. But at its deepest level, do you feel that one of the key themes of the story is the way that human love and kindness, however fleeting, have a kind of permanent power over death? In The Book Thief Death says repeatedly that this is only the story of a girl. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

The Book Thief is a story about the power of words to make worlds. When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found.īuth these are dangerous times. So bezgins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the helpof her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. It is the Gravedigger’s handdbook, left there by accident, and itis herfirst act of book thievery. By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a signle object, partially hidden in the snow. I twill be the first of many near encounters. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel.

Lisel’s father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word – Kommunist – and Liesel sess the fear of a similar fate in her mother’s eyes. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by thei mother to libe with a goster family outside Munich. DEATH HAS NEVER BEEN BUSIER, AND WILL BECOME BUSIER STILL.