By Markus Zusak
Narrated by Allan Corduner
Published September 14, 2006
Listening length: 13 hours, 56 minutes
My review: 5 out of 5 stars
Don’t miss Bridge of Clay, Markus Zusak’s first novel since The Book Thief.
The extraordinary number-one New York Times best seller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist - books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
“The kind of book that can be life-changing.” (The New York Times)
“Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” (USA Today)
I don't know why it took me so long to read this book. It is a historical fiction book about a German girl during World War 2. She is in Nazi Germany living with her foster parents. Told in alternating perspectives of her and death, it is simply beautiful. Stories of this time period are always intriguing to me, and this one especially got to me because it is told from the "other side" and shows just how much grey there was. Even in Germany, people didn't know what was going on. Or they feared not going along with it. They saw what was happening and were scared. I wonder what would happen if we were put in the same situation...
Don’t miss Bridge of Clay, Markus Zusak’s first novel since The Book Thief.
The extraordinary number-one New York Times best seller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist - books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
“The kind of book that can be life-changing.” (The New York Times)
“Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” (USA Today)
I don't know why it took me so long to read this book. It is a historical fiction book about a German girl during World War 2. She is in Nazi Germany living with her foster parents. Told in alternating perspectives of her and death, it is simply beautiful. Stories of this time period are always intriguing to me, and this one especially got to me because it is told from the "other side" and shows just how much grey there was. Even in Germany, people didn't know what was going on. Or they feared not going along with it. They saw what was happening and were scared. I wonder what would happen if we were put in the same situation...
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