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It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still.
By her brother s graveside, Liesel s life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger s Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel s love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor s wife s library . . . wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again.
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.
