The Book Thief

'Brilliant and hugely ambitious'
New York Times

'Extraordinary, resonant, beautiful and angry'
Sunday Telegraph

1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
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.
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