SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author It is 1939.
Now a major film from Twentieth-Century Fox starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson..
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel\'s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again. wherever there are books to be found. . .
So begins Liesel\'s love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor\'s wife\'s library .
It is The Gravedigger\'s Handbook, and this is her first act of Book thievery.
By her brother\'s graveside, Liesel\'s life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow.
Death has never been busier - and will become busier still.
In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath.
SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author It is 1939