![]() ![]() ![]() “People say things to me like, ‘I feel a lot better now about dying because of the voice of Death.’ I’m just shocked that it’s gone into so many different pockets of communities-young and old people have read it,” the Australian writer says. Zusak, now on tour to celebrate his novel’s 10th Anniversary and its expanded edition with a new afterward and author’s notes, has born witness to the work’s impact. Words, in short, rule the world.”Īs conceived and articulated by Markus Zusak, channeling his parent’s anecdotes of the Holocaust, The Book Thief celebrates the legacy of words changing worlds. Or as former Paste editor Charles McNair observed, Liesel is “a trumpet blast for the power of books and words-the power of words to do good, to do bad to raze low and raise high to create a Hitler, to allow a Hans Hubermann to exist. ![]() She steals stories from those who burn them. And as Liesel becomes emboldened with every syllable, she transforms into an icon of resilience. Later words spill from a singed Nazi bonfire, the mayor’s library and pages altered by a deathly-sick Jew hidden in her foster family’s basement. The first words she reads are snatched from an instruction book on grave digging. ![]() Adopted by a gentle painter named Hans and his resilient wife, Rosa, Liesel weathers the horrors of war through words. Her name is Liesel Meminger, and she wields the power to make grown men weep. A little blonde girl in a Munich suburb has been stealing hearts for the past decade. ![]()
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