Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Currently Reading...

The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

I'm fascinated by this book.  The story's narrator is Death.  The protagonist is an orphan girl named Liesel who lives with her foster family in Nazi Germany just as WWII begins.

Liesel learns to read and write and becomes obsessed with collecting and reading stories.  In the meantime, her foster family takes in a Jewish man and hides him from the Nazis.

Has anyone else read this one?

1 comment:

The Critic said...

I reviewed this book for the Plain Dealer and if you have a paperback version you can see a smidgen of my review blurbed on the inside cover.