Storia di una ladra di libri

No cover — Markus Zusak: Storia di una ladra di libri (Italian language, 2015)

Italian language

Published June 15, 2015

ISBN:: 978-88-6836-304-8

(1 review)

The Book Thief is a novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, and is his most popular book. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 16 million copies. It was adapted into the 2013 feature film, The Book Thief. The novel is about the adventures of Liesel Meminger in Germany during a time of war. By personifying "Death" as a tangible thing, the novel narrates a unique perspective into the world of the victims of the war.

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4 stars

Reading books about WWII in Germany is hard for me. I don't know, the scope of what transpired back then, and the thought that my parents were part of the Nazi youth groups, it's a bit much. At least until the middle of the book, I was pretty meh about it all. The narrator, the Denglish, the for me very weird sentence structure, it put me off.

But the longer you read, the more all those various characters of Himmel Street grow on you. From Liesel to Rosa to the mayor's wife or Rudy, they're all very touching characters. They make the book. And that's why in the end I came to love this book about a German family in a small Bavarian town near Munich, and all the various, touching, tragic events that happened during the war.