The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 2005

Pan Books, UK, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 584 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 2005. First Edition. This is the first Australian edition. *** CONDITION: Very Good. Lightly tanned pages. Covers have light scuffing. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many near encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel'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 accordion- playing 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 Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; War; ISBN: 033036426X. ISBN/EAN: 9780330364263. Inventory No: 18100091.. 9780330364263