Book Club Recommendation: Book recap of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Review: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Genre: literature, adventure, war, historical

Book Thief

I'll admit it. When I first picked it up, this was a book that I didn't de facto want to read. I scanned the blurb, saw it was set in World War Ii, and I glazed over. I'm just not a fan of war books. In increasing to this the author was only in his twenties, and perhaps for the sake of my Polish grandparents I felt sLightly indignant that man so young would hypothesize to write about one of the most tragedies we have ever known (in hindsight, an unreasonable position to take).

Book Club Recommendation: Book recap of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

As it turns out, judging a book by its cover in this instance was one of the bigger mistakes I've made. It is far from being just a war book, and the only comment I can make on the author's age is that he is possessed of a talent beyond his years. This was the best book I read in 2010.

The Book Thief is narrated by Death. It is set in Nazi Germany and focuses on a young Liesel Meminger, her life, her precious, pilfered books, and the relationships she forms with her bring up parents, the boy next door, and a Jewish man who is given refuge in the basement of her home. The book describes what life was like for German civilians, in singular for Liesel's bring up father, a kind man who has already seen too much war and like many other Germans, does not believe in the road his country is taking.

The book is beautifully, exquisitely written. The language captured and held me as much as the story, and the poetic prose flows like a lifeline straight through a story littered with Death's descriptions of the sky and colours as it Watches, waits, and plucks life from the novel's mortals.

This book is so many things. Every person at book club took away something different, and de facto we quarreled about the ending, but the Power of the storytelling in The Book Thief is so compelling, so touching, so plainly and yet elegantly delivered that ten out of twelve of us gave it five stars. A few members struggled with the first concentrate of chapters, trying to come to terms with the descriptions of the narrator before it became obvious that it was Death speaking, but overall we de facto can't advise this book to other book clubs enough. It's something wonderful, and one of those stories that lingers in your head long after the book closes.

Book Club Recommendation: Book recap of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

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