The Book Thief

En plena II Guerra Mundial, la pequeña Liesel hallará su salvación en la lectura. Una novela preciosa, tremendamente humana y emocionante, que describe las peripecias de una niña alemana de nueve años desde que es dada en adopción por su madre hasta el final de la guerra. Su nueva familia, gente sencilla y nada afecta al nazismo, le enseña a leer y a través de los libros Rudy logra distraerse durante los bombardeos y combatir la tristeza. Pero es el libro que ella misma está escribiendo el que finalmente le salvará la vida.
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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.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“Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today