The Book Thief

By: Markus Zusak

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Don’t miss Bridge of Clay, Markus Zusak’s first novel since The Book Thief.

The extraordinary number-one New York Times best seller 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)

©2006 Markus Zusak (P)2006 Random House Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

Critic reviews

• Book Sense Book of the Year Award, Children's Literature, 2007

"The astonishing characters, drawn without sentimentality, will grab readers." (Booklist)
"Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers....An extraordinary narrative." (School Library Journal)
"The Book Thief will appeal both to sophisticated teens and adults with its engaging characters and heartbreaking story." (Bookmarks Magazine)

Moving and sincere

One of the most exquisite stories. It’s touching beyond belief and speaks to the heart of being human.

Outstanding

My words are insufficient to describe the depths of tenderness and sorrow crafted in this story.

Listen to this book.

Wonderfully written

I loved this book. Beautifully written. You could feel yourself right there with the characters. Great prospective on what it was like for the Germans. Must read in my opinion

Excellent!

Wonderful narration for an excellent story. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time. If you are looking for something with some meaning and deeper thought, this one shouldn't be missed.

Book Thief

The book was good and acknowledging giving an insight of what was happening around the time. There were happy parts but soon turned to a lot of sadness and guilt. The story being told around this time was very interesting and informative. A good read and is worth it.

Very very good.

Wonderful story, easy to listen to and great ending. NOT a waste of my credit or your

loved this book. top favorites of all time!

This book was amazing. I don't know if it just happened in perfect timing get in my life, or maybe it's really just that good.

This book

This book is beautifully written. The narrator is magic, and the book thief is too. It shows you a different side from what you're used to. The German side of a story, and details of war that will make you protest every time the concept is brought up. I cried. I sobbed. I feel a bit empty as I write this review, but these characters are love and love sometimes hurts (dramatic, I know). Seriously, the written narrator is incredible, but Allan Corduner is a saumensch, and I mean that in the most wonderful way possible.

Loved it! Listened to it 3 times.

Absolutely wonderful. Highly recomended. A great story, great narrator. Everybody that I know who has read this or listened to this book has loved it. Worth the credit for sure.

Good Book

What did you love best about The Book Thief?

The man that was reading the book was very good and very animated. He really made the book come alive. The book was very good. The story line flowed. There were happy parts and some parts that made you want to cry because they were so sad. The reader really drew you in. The part that I didn't like about the book was the cussing. There was a lot of cussing. I am a Christian and they took the Lords name in vein a lot. I had a hard time with that because we are not warned any place that there would be all of that cussing and disrespect to the Lord. Other than that the story line was extremely good.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the book from start to finish. Not just one special part.

If you could take any character from The Book Thief out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Lesle because she had such a difficult life.