{"product_id":"the-book-thief-by-markus-zusak","title":"The Book Thief by Markus Zusak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - ONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME - A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e READER TOP 100 PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/i\u003e BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Death has a story to tell, you listen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of \u003ci\u003eI Am the Messenger, \u003c\/i\u003e has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The kind of book that can be life-changing.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Deserves a place on the same shelf with \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of a Young Girl \u003c\/i\u003eby Anne Frank.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDON'T MISS \u003ci\u003eBRIDGE OF CLAY\u003c\/i\u003e, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE \u003ci\u003eTHE BOOK THIEF.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant and hugely ambitious...Some will argue that a book so difficult and sad may not be appropriate for teenage readers...Adults will probably like it (this one did), but it's a great young-adult novel...It's the kind of book that can be life-changing, because without ever denying the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order, The Book Thief offers us a believable hard-won hope...The hope we see in Liesel is unassailable, the kind you can hang on to in the midst of poverty and war and violence. Young readers need such alternatives to ideological rigidity, and such explorations of how stories matter. And so, come to think of it, do adults.\" \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times, May 14, 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Book Thief \u003c\/b\u003eis unsettling and unsentimental, yet ultimately poetic. Its grimness and tragedy run through the reader's mind like a black-and-white movie, bereft of the colors of life. Zusak may not have lived under Nazi domination, but The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night. It seems poised to become a classic.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- USA Today\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Zusak 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.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Time Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Elegant, philosophical and moving...Beautiful and important.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Kirkus Reviews, Starred \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This hefty volume is an achievement...a challenging book in both length \u003cbr\u003eand subject...\"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Publisher's Weekly, Starred\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most highly anticipated young-adult books in years.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisitely written and memorably populated, Zusak's poignant tribute to words, survival, and their curiously inevitable entwinement is a tour de force to be not just read but inhabited.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- The Horn Book Magazine, Starred\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary narrative.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- School Library Journal, Starred\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\" The Book Thief will be appreciated for Mr. Zusak's audacity, also on display in his earlier I Am the Messenger. It will be widely read and admired because it tells a story in which books become treasures. And because there's no arguing with a sentiment like that.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- New York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarkus Zusak\u003c\/strong\u003e is the internationally bestselling author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently, \u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay.\u003c\/i\u003e His work is translated into more than forty languages, and has spent more than a decade on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list, establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll of Zusak's books - including earlier titles, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, When Dogs Cry (also titled Getting the Girl), and The Messenger (or I am the Messenger) - have been awarded numerous honors around the world, ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes voted on by booksellers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn 2013,  The Book Thief was made into a major motion picture, and in 2018 was voted one of America's all-time favorite books, achieving the 14th position on the PBS Great American Read. Also in 2018, Bridge of Clay was selected as a best book of the year in publications ranging from Entertainment Weekly to the Wall Street Journal. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarkus Zusak grew up in Sydney, Australia, and still lives there with his wife and two children.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTarget Age: 12+\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfred A. 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