(PDF DOWNLOAD) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Genres: Children's Literature Studies: General, Children's Fiction, Children's General Story Books, Adventure Books for Kids, Historical Books
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Pages: 567 pages
ISBN10: 0375842209
ISBN13: 9780375842207
Tags: Children's Literature Studies: General, Children's Fiction, Children's General Story Books, Adventure Books for Kids, Historical Books, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: Book
Size: Huge
Type: Digital
"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, May 14, 2006 "The Book Thief is unsettling and unsentimental, yet ultimately poetic. Its grimness and tragedy run through the reader's mind like a black-and-white movie, bereft of the colors of life. Zusak may not have lived under Nazi domination, but The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night. It seems poised to become a classic."
- USA Today

"Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five with grim, darkly consoling humor."
- Time Magazine.

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