The Book Thief [electronic resource]
Zusak, Markus2007
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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller. Over eight million copies sold. "Brilliant and hugely ambitious ... the kind of book that can be life changing" The New York Times NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. The Book Thief is a story about the power of words to make worlds. 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. ACCLAIM FOR THE BOOK THIEF "The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night. It seems poised to become a classic." USA Today "Elegant, philosophical and moving ... Beautiful and important." Kirkus Reviews "Extraordinary, resonant and relevant, beautiful and angry." Sunday Telegraph "...a beautifully balanced piece of storytelling...Unsettling, thought-provoking, life affirming, triumphant and tragic, this is a novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told. It is an important piece of work, but also a wonderful page-turner." The Guardian "A moving work which will make many eyes brim." Independent on Sunday AWARDS FOR THE BOOK THIEF Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (South East Asia & South Pacific) 2006 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year 2006 Daniel Elliott Peace Award 2006 Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature 2006 Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book 2006 Michael L. Printz Honor Book 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature 2007 Winner of the ALA Youth Medal Awards' Margaret A. Edwards Award 2014
Main title:
The Book Thief [electronic resource] / Markus Zusak
Author:
Zusak, Markus, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2007
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series title:
Audience:
Reading grade level: 3-4
Biography/History:
Markus Zusak was born in 1975 and is the author of five books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief, which is translated into more than forty languages. First released in 2005, The Book Thief has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, and still remains there to this day. His first three books, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe and When Dogs Cry (also known as Getting the Girl), released between 1999 and 2001, were all published internationally and garnered a number of awards and honours in his native Australia and the USA. The Messenger (or I am the Messenger), published in 2002, won the 2003 Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award (Older Readers) and the 2003 NSW Premier's Literary Award (Ethel Turner Prize), as well as receiving a Printz Honour in America. It also won numerous national readers choice awards across Europe, including, in 2007, the highly regarded Deutscher Jugendliteratur Jugendjury prize in Germany, which he won again for The Book Thief in 2010. It is The Book Thief, however, that has established Markus Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia. To date, The Book Thief has held the number one position at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, the New York Times bestseller list, as well as in countries across South America, Europe and Asia. It has also been in the top five bestsellers in the UK and several other territories. It has amassed many and varied awards, ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes voted on by booksellers. It was the only book to feature on both the USA and UK World Book Night Lists in 2012, and has been voted as Australian readers' favourite book by iconic independent bookstore, Dymocks, three years running. In 2013, The Book Thief was adapted to screen, directed by Emmy Award-winning Brian Percival (Downton Abbey) and shot in Berlin by Twentieth Century Fox. The cast was headlined by Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine, The King's Speech) and Academy Award nominee Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves, Anna Karenina). It also cast Sophie Nelisse (Monsieur Lazhar), as Liesel Meminger. The Guardian calls The Book Thief "a novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told." The New York Times: "Brilliant and hugely ambitious...the kind of book that can be life-changing." The Age: "an original, moving, beautifully written book." In 2014, Zusak received the American Library Association's Margaret Edwards award for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature, for his body of work ranging from The Underdog up to The Book Thief. Markus Zusak grew up in Sydney, Australia, and still lives there with his wife and two children.
Awards:
Margaret A. Edwards Award (American Library Association)Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee - Best Book (Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine)The New York Times Best Seller List (The New York Times)Best Fiction for Young Adults (Young Adult Library Services Association)Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book (American Library Association)
ISBN:
9781742624068
Language:
English
BRN:
301302
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