The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - 9781784162122

<p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 1.13;">HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE</span></p><p>1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">***** 'I loved every page of this book. So many great quotes, observations on humanity and images...I just didn't want it to end.</span></p><p>***** 'I loved this book. It is not only one of the best I've read this year, it is one of the best I've ever read.'</p><p>***** 'This is the sort of book the restores your faith in humanity and leaves you feeling uplifted, even when it makes you shed a tear.</p><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"Extraordinary, resonant and relevant, beautiful and angry." - </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;line-height: 1.13;">Lisa Hilton, Sunday Telegraph</span></p><p>"...a beautifully balanced piece of storytelling...Unsettling, thought-provoking, life affirming, triumphant and tragic, this is a novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told. It is an important piece of work, but also a wonderful page-turner." - <span style="font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;">Guardian</span></p><p>"A moving work which will make many eyes brim." - <span style="font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;">Marianne Brace, Independent on Sunday</span></p><p>"This is a weighty novel worthy of universal acclaim. A sense of dread prevades this beautifully written novel. As The Book Thief draws to a close, Death says: "There's a multitude of stories that i allow to distract me as I work." The story of the Book Thief, who tried to change the world in her own small way, proves one formidable and inspiring distraction." -<span style="font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;"> Lianne Kolirin, The Daily Express</span></p><p>"Brilliant and hugely ambitious ... the kind of book that could be life-changing" - <span style="font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;">New York Times Book Review</span></p><p>"...breathtakingly good." - <span style="font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;">Becky Stradwick, Buyer, Borders, The Bookseller</span></p><p>"A magical tale." - <span style="font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;">Elle</span></p><p>"...a fantastic book...it packs a huge emotional punch." - <span style="font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;">Angela Lockton, The Golden Treasury, London, The Bookseller</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"A tonic much needed amid the ominous menace of an era of such calamity." - </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;line-height: 1.13;">Alexandra Hamlyn, FT magazine</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"Quirky, engaging and beautifully written" - </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: italic;font-weight: bold;line-height: 1.13;">Woman and Home</span></p>