The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller'A novel of breathtaking scope' GuardianSOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.This new edition features an amazing early chapter from Markus Zusak's latest literary novel BRIDGE OF CLAY.
Liesel is an orphan who is taken into a poor German family. The foster father teaches her how to read and she falls in love with books and even “steals” them.