Book Worms Delight : The Book Thief By Markus Zusak
(Out of my slumber once and for all, if that's your question)
When Death tells a story, you really have to listen. Printed in fine words on the very cover of this book. Well, true to these lines, I had to read the book and definitely its a story to tell. Its Nazi Germany, death has never been busier. Many are killed in war, some just by the difficult life situations. When death comes across the book thief, everything starts to change. Story of Liesel Meminger, a mere nine-year old German whose suffering life is changed by the strong love affair she has with words and books. Liesel picks up an object covered in snow near her brother's graveside.
The Gravedigger's Handbook, her first act of thievery. In the beginning, she is sent to her foster parents in the small surroundings of Munich, Molching. Life starts normally with Liesel but before she realises, it changes dramatically. Her foster father teaches her to read, her growing passion for reading is irrepressible. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever books are to be found. Acts of such nature, requires a partner in crime and Leisel found hers, Rudy Steiner. But these are desperate times, Jews are hunted like animals. And when Liesel's parents hide one in their basement, her world is both accelerated and decelerated.
Narrated by Death, when the time is red, white or black. Set in the violent but extremely compelling nature of the Second World War Germany, it vividly describes the war scenario and the girl, Liesel. After reading the book, I regard Leisel as the most powerful character in the book, she even surpasses my fascination with Death. Markus Zusak's eloquent way of writing has made The Book Thief one of my favourite books of all time. Certainly, a story that deserves to reach vast masses.
" Sometimes I arrive too early.
I rush,
and some people cling longer
to life than expected "
-Death, The Book Thief.
When Death tells a story, you really have to listen. Printed in fine words on the very cover of this book. Well, true to these lines, I had to read the book and definitely its a story to tell. Its Nazi Germany, death has never been busier. Many are killed in war, some just by the difficult life situations. When death comes across the book thief, everything starts to change. Story of Liesel Meminger, a mere nine-year old German whose suffering life is changed by the strong love affair she has with words and books. Liesel picks up an object covered in snow near her brother's graveside.The Gravedigger's Handbook, her first act of thievery. In the beginning, she is sent to her foster parents in the small surroundings of Munich, Molching. Life starts normally with Liesel but before she realises, it changes dramatically. Her foster father teaches her to read, her growing passion for reading is irrepressible. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever books are to be found. Acts of such nature, requires a partner in crime and Leisel found hers, Rudy Steiner. But these are desperate times, Jews are hunted like animals. And when Liesel's parents hide one in their basement, her world is both accelerated and decelerated.
Narrated by Death, when the time is red, white or black. Set in the violent but extremely compelling nature of the Second World War Germany, it vividly describes the war scenario and the girl, Liesel. After reading the book, I regard Leisel as the most powerful character in the book, she even surpasses my fascination with Death. Markus Zusak's eloquent way of writing has made The Book Thief one of my favourite books of all time. Certainly, a story that deserves to reach vast masses.
" Sometimes I arrive too early.
I rush,
and some people cling longer
to life than expected "
-Death, The Book Thief.
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