An edition of The Book Thief (1998)

The Book Thief

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An edition of The Book Thief (1998)

The Book Thief

Mac Millan
  • 4.2 (113 ratings) ·
  • 1,833 Want to read
  • 102 Currently reading
  • 193 Have read

Erase una vez un mundo donde las noches eran largas y la Muerte contaba su propia historia. erase una vez una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. En el pueblo vivia una nina que queria leer, un hombre que tocaba el acordeon y un joven judio que escribia cuentos hermosos para escapar del horror de la guerra. Al cabo de un tiempo, la nina se convirtio en una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. Y con esas palabras se escribio una historia hermosa y cruel. Una novela tremendamente humana, emocionante e inolvidable, que describe las peripecias de una nina alemana de nueve anos desde que es dada en adopcion por su madre hasta el final de la II Guerra Mundial. Su nueva familia, gente sencilla y nada afecta al nazismo, le ensena a leer y, a traves de los libros, a distraerse durante los bombardeos y combatir la tristeza. Pero es el libro que ella misma esta escribiendo el que finalmente le salvara la vida.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

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Publisher
Picador Australia
Language
Spanish
Pages
600

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Previews available in: Russian Spanish English French Vietnamese Polish

Edition Availability
Cover of: Книжный вор
Книжный вор
2014, ĖKSMO
Hardcover in Russian
Cover of: La ladrona de libros
La ladrona de libros
Nov 25, 2014, Lumen
Hardcover in Spanish
Cover of: The Book Thief
The Book Thief
2013, Alfred A. Knopf
Paperback in English - Movie Tie-In Edition (10)
Cover of: La voleuse de livres
La voleuse de livres
2013-10, Pocket Jeunesse
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The Book Thief
The Book Thief
2013, Alfred A. Knopf
Paperback in English - Movie Tie-In Edition (19)
Cover of: Kẻ trộm sách
Kẻ trộm sách
2011, DT Books
Paperback in Vietnamese
Cover of: La ladrona de libros
La ladrona de libros
2009-02-01, Debolsillo
in Spanish
Cover of: Złodziejka książek
Złodziejka książek
2008, Nasza Księgarnia
in Polish - Wyd. 1.
Cover of: The Book Thief
The Book Thief
2006, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - U.S. Hardcover Large print ed. (9)
Cover of: The Book Thief
The Book Thief
2005, Picador Australia
Paperback in Spanish - Mac Millan

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Edition Notes

Published in
Autralia
Copyright Date
2013
Translation Of
Book Thief
Translated From
English

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.92
Library of Congress
PR9619.4 .Z87B6618, PZ7.Z83718 Boo 2013

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
600

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32728761M
Internet Archive
laladronadelibro0000zusa
ISBN 10
6073120311
ISBN 13
9786073120319
Goodreads
58603172

Work Description

The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.

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

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a mountain range of rubble

in which our narrator introduces: himself – the colours – and the book thief.
added by Lisa.

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