Author: Markus Zusak
Translator: Young-mok Jeong
Publisher: Munhakdongne
2-volume set | 210*140mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some
words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter,
and quite a lot of thievery...
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new
novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of
Munich. Liesel 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 before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the
soul.
“Brilliant and hugely ambitious…Some will argue that a book so
difficult and sad may not be appropriate for teenage readers…Adults will
probably like it (this one did), but it’s a great young-adult novel…It’s
the kind of book that can be life-changing, because without ever denying
the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order, The Book
Thief offers us a believable hard-won hope…The hope we see in Liesel is
unassailable, the kind you can hang on to in the midst of poverty and
war and violence. Young readers need such alternatives to ideological
rigidity, and such explorations of how stories matter. And so, come to
think of it, do adults.” --New York Times
"Elegant, philosophical and moving...Beautiful and important." --Kirkus
Reviews, Starred
"This hefty volume is an achievement...a challenging book in both length
and subject..." --Publisher's Weekly, Starred
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