| Record Number |
711300 |
| ISBN |
9781742613314 (paperback) |
| 9781101934180 (hardback) |
| Author |
Zusak, Markus author. |
| Title |
The book thief / Markus Zusak with illustrations by Trudy White. |
| Edition |
Film tie-in edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2013. |
| Sydney, N.S.W. : Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2013. |
| c2005 |
| Pagination etc. |
584 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Summary Note |
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 Gravedigger'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 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 closed down. |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Fiction |
| Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction |
| Shelf Location |
F ZUSA |
| F ZUSA |
